#worldmaking

[embodiedfutures]

[gyamfieric]

some days...

home is where the world is constructed...

... where the image takes form

[black-whole]

Screenshots from Black February

[Images read: 1.but where are the doors to revelation? 2. who has some imagination beyond the definition 3. to a limitless scope of interpretation]

[companyofhellsing-blog]

Dreamteam 2019, after long two years of (bad) trip.

The Noblewoman. The Originator. The Second. The Gypsy. And the Fighter.

[blacknerdproblems]

Repost from @erikacchristie using @RepostRegramApp - No photo is ever complete without a #yoda #blerDCon And I'm back to the con! #photographerslife - - - - - - #blerdcon2017 #blerdcondc #iwantyoda #cosplaying #nerdconvention #cosplayers #cosplays #erikacchristiephotography #blerd #blerdcon #worldmaking #imaginealleydigital #oc #onset #comicbookartist #fashiondesigner #lucasfilm #characterdesign #illusion #sciencefictionmua #yodabackpack #comicbookdesigning

[black-whole]

Elaine Mitchener

(Image: Screenshot of Elaine Mitchener with caption ‘life is an improvisation’)

[black-whole]

Suji Kwock Kim talks to Danez Smith on the eve of publishing their new book, Homie SKK: How would you articulate what’s specifically ‘American’ about US poetry – keeping in mind all the limitations ...

excerpts from the interview with Danez Smith

“ The first poets I knew were my pastors, growing up. The wave of spirit that would move through the church when the pastor would sing ‘My Soul is Anchored in the Lord.’ It was his go-to song, when we really needed a whoop-and- holler show. Seeing what it did to my mother and all the women in the church, jumping up and shouting and fainting, because of the rise and fall of the pastor’s voice.”

“Nowadays, I believe in the church of friendship and love and family. The church of community. The church of being there for folks. The church of checking in.

SKK: And of imagination.

DS: Exactly! The church of imagination.

SKK: Of dreaming of a possible world. A better world. Right here on earth, not in heaven.

DS: The church of a better world. Part of me is always talking to God in my poems. He’s the easiest one to turn to, but he’s not the only ‘divine’. I feel farther and farther from the Baptist God I was raised on, but I find myself rediscovering prayer. The divine has always been an important part of my work, even when I feel farthest from God.When I think about what poetry does, poetry opens us up, and transforms us. That’s what I know to be God. God is transformation. Poetry is transformation. At its best, a poem is going to pick us up and leave us somewhere different.”

“We were talking about the divine earlier. Poetry isn’t just craft, which you can teach in a workshop, but a spiritual act, a prayer and spell, an ancient ritual.

SKK: It’s soul-making, in the end, something which is unique, and individual, and unrepeatable. And always in conversation with other souls.

DS: Poetry at its best utters something we didn’t know we could utter. Moments when I read a poem and think: I didn’t know we were allowed to say that out loud! Saying the unexpected or impossible thing. So, soul-making, yes, but also soul-confirming. Letting people know it can be said. Hoping someone can see my black, queer, loud- mouth work and recognise the worthiness in themselves.“

[culturalmemory]

early November