Question-finding, on practice, noticing, calling out and calling in
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| Vanilla under Electron Microscope |
reading: Several Short Sentences About Writing - on noticing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg-- a short reflection on Klinkenborg
How do we engage in the collaborative work to craft the question that is going to lead us to the research that is going to lead to the work? Always asking where there might be a blind spot?
On the web-making work on the sidewalk
- when is a connection there and when is it what I want to see?
- when does an idea reveal that there is so much more to see?
- the connections we see may be different from those the author wrote
- the residue of materials-- chalk, memory...
Question Finding
Content-- what connections what questions?
- I can't see past the blinders of the south
- how is history written on the landscape and in the land
- where is the queer history of the south? who has history and who doesn't and why?
- how are systems revealed in art and how does certain art challenge systems?
- what in us fuels the systems that oppress us?
- capitalism and lives, the environment, grinding away humans
- connections of human experience-- black lives queer lives... what ways did marginalized people share experiences that history has not captured
- fantasy/phantasy in the ways we think of the south
- what do we mean when we say landscape?
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