paper house: amanda green, devita ravani, and lin tang by jonathan andy tan
Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"
“If you will grant me one vivid morning, I can chain it to me for fifty years.”
— William Stafford, from Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems, eds. Vincent Wixon and Paul Merchant (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014)
Marianela Nunez and Federico Bonelli in rehearsal for Acosta’s Carmen
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (Columbia GP 26, 1970). Cover by Mati Klarwein.
the handmaiden, (Unnamed) by me, moonlight, come into the water by mitski, the handmaiden, once more to see you by mitski
polynesians: have oral history that references a faraway land of andes-like mountains in the east, cultivated sweet potato (a plant native to central america, not the pacific), literally call sweet potato by the same word used by the quechua and aymara people indigenous to the andes, left physical remains on islands a few km off the coast of chile, have genetic links with native south americans
white academics: hmmm it’s very doubtful polynesians contacted south america.. they probably just stopped permanently at easter island for some reason after systematically navigating the entire south pacific. the sweet potatos floated to them across the ocean