EXFORMATION

Wikitionary defines exformation as: "all the shared body of knowledge which is not explicitly used when people communicate, but without which communication would be impossible." All photos on this blog are my original work.

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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

 Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook

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A gauze bandage wraps the land and is unwound, stained orange with sulfates. A series of slaps molds a mountain, a fear uncoils itself, testing its long cool limbs.

From "Ignatz Invoked" by Monica Youn. Read the full poem here.

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This is gonna be a crazy exhibition, if the launch party is anything to judge by. Hooray for Aicon Gallery

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This is the holding pattern in my brain.

-St Louis, 2014

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... Show me what it means to be superhuman. I will light a match in the basement, flood any attic. Teach me how to do. This dojo’s already on fire. Mentor, I’m a truant for you.

Excerpt from "Drop-Kick Aria" by Sally Wen Mao. Read full poem here.

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There is actually no one more excited than me that the prophetic words of the All-Knowing Yogurt have come to pass - there's going to be a Spaceballs II: The Quest for More Money!

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Home sweet home

- South Williamsburg 2015

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Lately it appears the water has been waiting for us to keep trying to make it across. The rivers and trenches glossed with light know we are so relentless as to plan for catastrophe, layering backup upon reserve.

Excerpt from "Ditching" by R.A. Villanueva. Read full poem here.

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I think anyone who has ever had to work, creatively, for someone else can appreciate this.

"I may not be an artist but I know what I like!"

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Driving under an african sky 

-South Africa, 2014

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I am looking for you first & last in the dark places, when I turn my face away from headlines at dawn, dropping the rolled news to the floor. Your rumble of calm poured into me. There was the saving grace of care, from day one, the watching and being watched from every corner of the yard.

Excerpt from "Haunted" by Naomi Shihab Nye. Read full poem here

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LRB · James Wood · On Not Going Home

I have now lived 18 years in the United States. It’s a bit feeble to say I didn’t expect to stay that long; and ungrateful, or even meaningless or dishonest, to say I didn’t want to. I must have wanted to; there has been plenty of gain. But I had so little concept of what might be lost. ‘Losing a country’, or ‘losing a home’, if I gave the matter much thought when I was young, was an acute world-historical event, forcibly meted out on the victim, lamented and canonised in literature and theory as ‘exile’ or ‘displacement’, and defined with appropriate terminality by Edward Said....

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Death is only the beginning...(as this is only the beginning of my melodramatic quotations from B Action movies

- St. Louis, MO 2014

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"Don't, don't feel like the runt alien on my ship: I get you.

- "I'm Perfect at Feelings" from Human Dark With Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy 

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Gotta love this town

-Hudson River Skyline, 2013

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On April 24 and May 1, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the global financial crisis.

Want to make heads and tails of the last few years? Frontline has got you covered.

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...all riders are subject to the same rule: if a horse refuses to jump, he must be made to take it again. The rider must coax him round and convince him to do it. Horses have sudden fears. So do I, but in this life you have to take your fences.

The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson