The St. Louis arts community does not have a deep archive that documents its people, places, and resources.

“These are things we should talk about, if you want to reconcile with what it is to live in Fort Wayne.”

The unfurling bud at the tip of the tree of my resistance is my dawning realization that I and many others—maybe you yourself—could easily be classified as criminals. Indeed, many of us are classified that way already.

The myth is that if we can’t “make it,” then we don’t want it bad enough. Such thinking fails to consider people as whole parts within a whole system.

We should feel not only what we are doing, but what we are representing. The entrance corridor should be seamless, simple, and invisible, even when someone makes their first entrance.

My hope, but not my expectation, is that together we may yield more tremble than objects, because we will be concerned with finding, and having found, ways to carry the camera for each other.

Bunting is a sacrifice play. It's typically done when the bases are loaded.

Experiencing the flow state of creation feels outside the bounds of time itself to me. How can that not feel spiritual?

The work of rebuilding is an odd mix of tending to what already exists and starting anew. Do you pull up the foundation or build atop?

How does your work participate in cycles longer than three to four generations? 

three different people whose work responds to societal concerns, offers solutions, and positively influences the world around them.

As Thompson shows, the modern work day—and even our basic sense of what constitutes an hour or a year—was a violent imposition that met fierce resistance.

It takes unassailable courage to speak truth to power with your full chest, whether it’s into a megaphone, to a trusted circle of friends, or whispered to yourself in solitude.

Naming the non-human features of the land is a human activity with all attendant human limitations. Thus the will to represent falls into the well of selection—and for an atlas like this one, of curation.

The role or the function of publications or media or mediated publications is to help to create new publics, and to help solidify collective consciousness around shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge.

I truly believe that finding out that you are not alone and your story is valid is the key to unlocking the potential for a beautiful Black dream.

Critique is ultimately a dialogue, one which unveils the structures within which the critique takes place. It is subjective. There are no objective truths in critique. It is a practice.

I’m here simply because I love being here, and I love making art here.

The first shelf of the music biographies section contains around twenty Louis Armstrong titles, several in duplicate. That’s just one shelf.

Music is one of my biggest euphorias.