Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? She’d asked her gallerist who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist seemed to misunderstand, […]

We Responsible Others Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? She’d asked her gallerist who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist […]

Artwork by the author and his daughter, Freddy O’Malley The only friend I ever heard about was Carl. They played golf on Sundays, out around Wentzville. It happened once, maybe twice a year that Dad would win, and then he’d hurry home and drive me or my mom over to Carl’s office to get our […]

from And Yet * Celibate that first year in the Midwest I felt relief from my libido and inherent male gaze launched outward. Leaking its covert imagination everywhere, especially on women, I felt relief from the (sexual) daimon constantly prowling along and inside me. This isn’t to say, though, that I felt any more civilized […]

        Read the poems from the new book, listen to her first album, Press Color, in its entirety, read more about this poet and musician, and watch performances.   MEAT. Night after day, stunning flesh of absolute nerves. Waxed and chilled, marrow and femur Desire for fulmination. Under the tongue capsules of […]

The Annunciation (ca. 1440-1445), Fra Angelico Deep Tissue Two housesits in Hudson, NY; two mysterious scratch marks; two bats; two cats; two multimedia art installations; two concerts at Knockdown Center in Queens; and a second interview with Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart. * * * I walk to the cemetery, write a name down on paper, […]