• These small words , 2008

    I am in a gallery right now. The Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center at UCLA. I’m enduring a small sense of withdrawal from my anti-depressants (twitching), it’s a warm Sunday afternoon, and I have a Guinness Extra Stout at hand; brought with me in my sundried, brown leather bag. I’m […]

  • a big one , 2007

    Recording

    whether or not she bagged a large one - a fury, a lust, a sun -
    it set it’s teeth inside
    her arm like a fruit.
    big fists and big eyes
    over and over a trail of spots
    circling around, back to her heart and back in a fight
    a sharpened negro picks a better direction
    set loose in strained thought
    black soot […]

  • From an obscure page of a journal of notes , 2007

    A page from a journal:
    At the time, the brown ales flowed more than my heart and motivations but still I looked at myself. Wanted [to] show others what I didn’t like seeing: myself. A self-hate of africanesque, privileged, non-american ideals.
    I had to scream to a world of strangers.
    ~
    I like to […]

  • was there a web 1.5: a design perspective , 2007

    Some graphic designers will tell you that their work is no art form and its tenets rely on communication - honest, direct and often with the intents of satisfying a client. There is a new prevalence in experiencing design from scouring pages on-line and new access to an innumerable amount of design that maybe the […]

  • on obama: a brief essay on race and politics , 2007

    These worlds of conservative values, issues of race, and religion have at times negated one another. They’ve created a strange place in between where I have stood for some time. As such I’ve lived an impersonal life. Impersonal in my views towards people, race, politics. A life designed as a sort of safety where I could not find myself arriving at too many conclusions. An impersonal life for some time.

 
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