number 1 most prone to rumination and self-recrimination goes to me.
but seriously; thank you! ❤
Tag: personal
Hey, how do you find out about the art you post? All of it is so beautiful and violent. I’ve seen your posts on Ana Mendieta and I just love it. I love art but don’t know much about and don’t know where to start :((
Honestly, it is just a lot of obsessive internet scouring. If you look at the sources on my posts (especially the more recent ones), I usually link to galleries that I love. Also, this may seem obvious, but it took me a minute to start doing this: image searching on google (right click on the image and do a google search) can link you to amazing blogs where you can find similar work.
It can feel daunting at first, but you have already started by loving art! That’s all it takes—especially now with the internet at our disposable. I’m having family time right now, but I’ll try to compile a big resource post in the next week for you and the other people who have sent me similar messages. ❤
When I grow up I’d really just rather be a garden.
your writing is beautiful and you are too
One of my professors at grad school opened up our first workshop by asking, “when did beauty become the default?” I liked that.
But I am not immune to the charm of this statement.
What is one book you would have everyone read at least once if you had the power to do so?
Please post more of your own art. When you’re famous I’ll be able to think to myself “I wrote her when she was just starting”.
Oh man. What a lovely comment. I don’t generally post the text of my writing, because I am shopping my work to publishers right now and any prior publishing is frowned upon, but here is a link to an audio recording of the first section of my collection, The Orchard, with some weird sound effects.
Again; thanks so much. I have scant ambitions toward fame, but I do have aspirations to achieving some sort of emotional and intellectual cogency, so this note made my night.
Is the “you can terrorize her with her own body” excerpt you posted something you wrote or from a book? I can’t stop thinking about it.
I initially wasn’t able to track the source, but it appears that it is from a play by Carolyn Gage called The Second Coming of Joan of Arc. ❤
27 and thriving™ #yolo #fomo #funtimes
Is that you? If so, how did you get the photograph to look so classic?
Sorry—I answer these like once every six months, so I am not sure what you are referring to. If the photo was tagged as #personal or #me or #my face…then it is me. If you get this, let me know what you were referring to and I will answer in a more helpful way. I use a few different editing tools on photos, so I can’t be certain what, if anything, I did without knowing which image you are referencing.
i didn’t mean to reblog a personal post i’m sorry
I’m not sure what the post was, but I’m quite sure it was fine. I am pretty mindful of not posting things that I don’t want in the public eye (especially since my blog has gotten so much more popular), as tumblr gives so little control over how things are disseminated and it is quite impossible to delete them in any meaningful way.
I know unsolicited advice is obnoxious, so forgive me, but I think you show real promise and can’t help myself. Here it is: this tumblr shows you are a good art student. Let it show that you are a good artist.
I don’t post my writing on here because a lot of lit journals count self-publishing on blogs as a publication and it would preclude me from submitting. Although, tbf, I have something like 6,000 followers on here, which means that I would have a far larger audience than virtually any journal…so I am beginning to wonder what the point of holding off is. Aside from propping up an elitist academia.
hi- you don’t know me, but my name’s emma and I’m a poet in the mfa at Colorado State in Fort Collins. Are you doing your mfa in Laramie?
Hey Emma, I was actually in the MFA at University of Montana. I moved to Laramie for a few months after leaving the program because I fell in love with a man who is in the lit program there. I have a sort-of-friend, Zach, who is in your program though!
Little Bristling Soul 