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Camille

Because Camille's photographs of her amazing, beautiful piece(s) are so much more eloquent than any photograph I could ever take...

Youmna

Dearest Ana,

For your birthday with wishes for beautiful pursuits!

In the package you sent, I was offered the following:

1. a Polaroid "I-zone" instant pocket camera

2. a link to an image with the definition of drapetomania inscribed on its surface.

In these, I found the concept of Pursuit.

According to Merriam-Webster, the following words rhyme with Pursuit.

acute, astute, Asyût, bear fruit, beetroot, Beirut, birthroot,bloodroot, breadfruit, butut, cahoot, Canute, catsuit,cheroot, choucroute, clubroot, commute, compute, confute,crapshoot, cube root, deaf-mute, depute, dilute, dispute,dry suit, elute, en route, enroot, flight suit, folkmoot,freeboot, galoot, grapefruit, G suit, hardboot, hip boot,hirsute, imbrute, impute, jackboot, jackfruit, jumpsuit,kashruth, lawsuit, long suit, lounge suit, minute, nonsuit,offshoot, outshoot, Paiute, pantsuit, permute, playsuit,pollute, recruit, refute, repute, salute, sans doute, seaboot,snowsuit, solute, square root, star fruit, star route, statute,strong suit, sunsuit, sweat suit, swimsuit, take root,taproot, to boot, tracksuit, trade route, transmute, tribute,uproot, volute, wet suit, zoot suit.

(yes, Beirut was included--- I did not add it!)

Pursuit

makebelieve that longing is all that matters

you will keep returning to small

the camera has a rubber handle like the ones on underwater masks, I imagine it swinging from

my wrist as I walk fast, accidently hitting another hurried body. Instead, I set it on the desk, it watches

there are four settings: off, cloudy, sunny and a small figure in a box with a triangle roof. I open it and

no film, only its possibility. It is shaped like this, like landscape, like purple plastic landscape

my day is long

there is coffee

without sugar

write about

spoken form

and language

will you find

a way to talk

about loss

in the afternoon

I stop to change

buildings, rain

arrive soaked

ask for more

time, not enough

orange bucket

seats and a

book, quick

look down

and prepare

tomorrow, soon

near the bridge

exit, walk to

water, skip it

we shove into

wooden corners

make plans for

next summer

beneath street

lamp, two bikes

you and I, towards

the hill, do not run

its warm now

later, there will be

remnants of film

open, find sound

12 exposures, September 20, 2011.

Love,

Youmna

Joselina

This is no Aphrodisiac from RepúbliKa Libre on Vimeo.

Claudia

Remember the heads up we got back in August? Here's the video...Space!

Holly

It was really fun. My artistic process when like this...

cut up a bunch of paper and make shapes like the cookie cutters

use an entire glue stick to make an elaborate pile of paper that I had hoped would look like the DR but was actually it's mirror image. Turn whole thing over and freak out a little

Get Crockett to make it look like something good

Take tons of pictures and try out every effect until happy

Yay!

JP

From JP...thank you. It's beautiful. Check it out:

36

You

embrace this year.

Your numbers curve

gently like the tangerine coral

you mimic: soft, bendable, your

fingers touch surface. You unfold this year.

This year you find yourself at home in tropical

seas and sway to jazz beats in cool dark rooms.

Say freedom. No, no: scream Freedom! Inhale

the last 35 years. Remember: all the words you wrote.

The memories carved under skin. Your fleshy rind holds

names of ex lovers, their faces, tears, even their voices.

That skin, those words, they sing, hum, whisper,

scream, pray, chant, sometimes they are silent.

Now exhale. Let those memories flow out.

Remember: there is enough room to collect

new ones. Ana, bend fingers.

Touch water, sand, stone

and especially skin.

Say Ashé.