#moyradavey

[dk-thrive]

Maybe part of the fatigue (and potential bulimia) of the internet comes from knowing that ‘everything’ is available to us at the touch of a finger. It’s all there to read instantaneously, or it can be on your doorstep in two days.

— Moyra Davey, in Maggie Nelson’s from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[czudej]

Moyra Davey Trinity Dogs, 2015 20 b&w digital C-prints, tape, labels, postage, ink each 12 x 12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm) overall- 48 x 60 inches (121.92 x 152.40 cm)

[designae]

SENTENCE | 22

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[drawdownbooks]

Gold Dumps and Ant Hills / Available at www.draw-down.com / Shot in South Africa in 1992, Moyra Davey's Gold Dumps and Ant Hillsis a series of black-and-white photographs of mounds left behind by two types of excavation—one human and one animal. For Davey, the pairings of gold dumps and ant hills “invite not only our imagined associations but, as South African landscapes, our received, politically charged associations as well.” The photographs are presented here in book form for the first time. Designed by Dan Solbach. Published by Toupée #GoldDumps #AntHills #MoyraDavey #SouthAfrica #photobook

[dk-thrive]

By filming yourself walking around your house and talking about literature and theory and your family, you’re giving us this remarkably generous self-portrait—of what you think about most, what you read, your own artistic journey, and perhaps most of all, your body and voice moving through space in the most banal but also intimate and compelling of ways.

— Maggie Nelson, from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

When you have generosity toward others, self-love is possible, or is it vice versa?

— Moyra Davey, in Maggie Nelson’s from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

I’ve grown weary by how much I quote and how much I rely on reading to write.

People think I read a lot too, but it’s getting to be less and less. Recently I had to give a talk and a seminar at Rutgers, so I reread a bunch of my stuff in preparation, and I watched some of the videos. I’ve grown weary by how much I quote and how much I rely on reading to write. I love how you put it—“looking for what you need”—and the excitement that arises when you find the right thing. But I feel more and more self-conscious. In the thing I’m writing now for my next video, I’m trying to refer, for example, to Godard and Barthes, without using their names. That’s how desperate I am to change things up!

— Moyra Davey, in Maggie Nelson’s from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)