Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Photosynthesis, almost


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Feeling It Through

Balmorhea - Take Away Show - Bowsprit from valerie toumayan on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Seasons, encased


(drawing of winter, drowning of spring)


Monday, September 27, 2010

My hair covers these thoughts with heavy foliage


(Collaborative Installation between A'alia Brown and Sarah Jenks, Spring 2009)





(Images courtesy of A'alia Brown)




script:

I love this place.

The place

where this mask which wraps my face

is let free.

A vessel splintering the seas.

She dances on her own violation.

Or so it would seem.

In the water she pulls hard,

yearning sovereignty.

The further she drifts

the more I long her pull.

Return

and wrap me inside.

Clothe me in familiarity.


I can remember the smell of my mothers hair.

I remember its texture on my cheek when I cried in it.

These useless strings

filled with so much touch.

Matching the wrinkles on her hand

interrupting her long and graceful fingers.

The feathers.

The wings.

The dove.

The flight.


She fed me quiet words

full of touch.

And silence filled with listening.

I fall into rusting memories.

Decrepit and precious

these times are filled with little awareness,

just eyes.

Young eyes,

unlooked

and full of looking.


The pretty dresses

sit like patient wings around my hips.

Waiting for this female

to wave back and forth,

making a shadow,

a dark blanket on the ground

from fabric floating above.

A man asks me to share the shade.

He cuts me a slice of watermelon

and I fear my hesitation to a smile

and resistance of his proximity.

Only our ears can hear the volume of our exchanging glances.

Deep ink colors a lightening bolt across his eye.

His eyes are looking.


Outstretched hand,

he offers his greatest utensil

for the purpose of extinguishing our temporary solitude.

His occurrence in my mirror of the tree make me nervous.

So I run to the sun spot.

This freckles my skin.

I can feel his shadow crawl across

and connect these skin spots.

Closer it comes to me

the more I must chase it.

It runs faster from me,

faster than my own.

It is my own.

Alone I am my own.


It’s only my shadow.

My crooked wing stuck in ground.

We can fly between,

on the clouds

and share the whisper songs of our flight.

Take me home.

Drop my in the sea

and I will breathe full breaths

and swim with the birds.

The mermaids let the waves lull their hair.

Swinging back and forth

to a source more their own.


I want to take it back.

I want to rock these waves myself.

But I cannot hold this moon inside my heart,

the light leaks through my ventricles

will expose these bones and illuminate the inside out.

Fading.

Diluted.

Gone.


The pirate catches me.

He steal from the seas.

I am romanced again

by the sight of his entrenched eye patch.

I am looking.

And I can no longer look

at the suns fractured rays in the water.

I cannot hide in my window,

as beautiful as it might be,

there is no breeze for my hair to breathe.

But when we float above

we can see the stars,

the light leaks of swallowed moons.


Only the whales can see the salt water marks

where the pink of his face touched mine.

Tattered with the rising tide.

The lace on my dress traces my knees.

Like the branches in my head.

the ruffles above it.

My hair covers my thoughts

with heavy foliage.

Only the rain can get through

to water this growth.


It perforates my skin

and encases the pockets between my organs.

Permeating their structures

to fill with this silence.

Swallowing the space between these veins.

Exiting through the very gateways,

which birthed it.


And I let it.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Good(bye) Winter

(Originally posted March 30)


Bon Iver - Skinny Love



I have watched this video about 50 times, and every time it makes me fall in love while simultaneously breaking my heart.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Naked Trees



Made Winter 2009



Winter is coming,
winter is here.
Rolling across my fingers and eating into my branches below.
The leaves I use to feel the world crinkle and fade.
Their dust coats the ground and insulates my core.
As winter grasps my hand,
it wipes away the fingerprints left by others.
And I think there is something beautiful,
in my new found nudity.

Finding Comfort