ingressions

to revivify

I thought I might tentatively come on here and revivify this, to wean off the image-based, and hopefully off ig in time.

not just food any more as before, but more of a holistic thing, the food and all else.

hopefully the writing will be freer and more frequent and more yielding, but for now,

to revivify:

• a prim-prize-winning-pair of laid out leeks grown at the end of my street

• a wordle list from august: aster, arbor, adorn, acorn

• toms, onions, pickles s s s on the counter

• dad looking at a nan goldin photo in a book by lamplight

• an image all angles: a composition with shola: corsage with velvets brown and red, and a metal straw from conor; bouquet from caitlin; a wristed bag of ice; lemons; dinner candles; cigarette; fortune cookie

• a new door, blue for Tim

and

an old piece of writing, written for an exhibition in 2018, that I googled and read to myself the other day at the train station, to fortify and remind myself of myself. copied here with an updated name in it.

salt baking – a methodology, 2/10/18

Nico said “slacken the sails;” yield.
Because people,
most people,
most people
some times,
are nitwits.

They never use the language that you are
looking to hear.

                              &

The author envisioned           text
spelling out on film.
            The word           interning.
            The world                    interning.
            The world, in turning, …

high up a place of refuge
low down a place of refuge

low and cheek to the cliff
high and up there

a sausage on the floor
moving, moving,

                              &

I said, “dramatise it for me.”
For, to foster, fallibility. In order to not let the
image speak and that be it.

It was like this: I gave you the theory of the
stone – of its crevice and of its surface
qualities, and of how it smelled and of how the
frothy water licked at it and retreated from it.

And you go and imprint this into slack mud! –

so as this unsteady impression is what lasts.

explicit forms –
of the arms akimbo of

an olive.
a figure in a closed room.

each a product of an observer –
some first responder

Things either working in contrast or in concert.
Subjects as active intermediaries.

This is preposterous, I —-.

I agree with this, yes. Yes, this such imprecise
fostering is correct, such sheltering an
appropriate homage.

We move in and out of focus.

Self-framing,
we frame our products,

fashion tonics in bottles of glass,
thoroughly manufacture.

our entities have relationships with other
entities
which exist outside of ourselves

                              &

1080 g flour, 400 of table salt
seems precise

water to bind to a very smooth dough

celeriac ~2.5 hours
whole onion 1 hour

‘large parsnip 40 mins’

                              &

And a whole celeriac looks like a moon or a
misplaced football when it is brought out of the
oven.