rags tell a story
January 10, 2026 § Leave a comment
Hoot_ hoot
the owls were so loud last night a crisp cold clear night allowing
the musical instrument of the night’s air to carry& amplify the
cries of the owls who could’ve been flying or perched anywhere in
the valley their calls traveling from one mountain ridge to the next
to
it changed the meaning of everything reminding us of the spectrum of
significance
earlier he’d said, I wonder if there’s a book about price setting
you mean like for art?
I mean for anything
ah that grabs it all by the nuts doesn’t it: value: :merit: :worth: :context
& whooo
here now
June 17, 2025 § 1 Comment
off press offers work that explores ways of exploring
particularity & precarity seen or not
tangential moments interruptions incidental glimpses
doubt resistance unexpected but expected
fragments off shoots by products in motion
on going under standing over arcing between
co_laborative con_versational generative&
off
TITLES:
solving for the unknown, artist book, limited edition
judi goldberg
“ ”_2, an artist book
Brooke Holve
NO TITLE, catalogue of an installation
judi goldberg, Brooke Holve
Gestures Word; a pamphlet
Brooke Holve, judi goldberg
off pressure; an artist book
Brooke Holve, judi goldberg
thoughts on
April 10, 2025 § 2 Comments
30 Metaphor and its traps and trappings
like identity and narrative and the long run of a Liberal Democracy intended to preserve liberty and justice for all and so allowing for the discernment of individual differences creating a tension between then what become the two poles and the never ending dilemma of my rights as an individual vs the good of the many and the health of the commons
is losing one’s way going too far is losing one’s way going too far is losing one’s way
I veer toward circularity and the concrete as a reprieve.
Feeling sad feels sad.
31 knitting
some way of being
telling the stories we can live with corollary to the notion we don’t tell the stories we remember we remember the stories we tell which in fact are the stories we can and do live with that underlie the stories we remember and tell the kernal at its core perhaps as tightly bound as the inside of the golf ball or as loosely and lovingly rewound from the skein of yarn into a ball from which then one knits creates unfurls an outcome tells a story it’s all tricky business or not
feeling strange feels strange
not_fascism
April 6, 2025 § Leave a comment
5 mobilization
We were in part a bedraggled lot those with an assortment of limited funds of things that are limiting but there was no limit to the willingness to put it all on the line and stand on the line we’ve stood on before and there was no limit to the up_welling; the generating between generations the call and response of calling and responding and the accompanying company of com_munity in the common need for the commons. We were those who could not yet stand or walk and those who could no longer stand or walk. But we all could sing.
6 47Nero
We were talking about new signs talking about the nature of democracy depending on discourse and persuasion and the ways in which fascism instead tolerates none of that, no seeing or making sense on one’s own of the seeing of the goings on going on demanding fealty to the proclamations of the chosen leader who is the only one who is by default granted that allknowing allseeing so saying as if the so saying makes it so. Yesterday was peaceful. There will be crackdowns. The Golfer will not tolerate the so many who aren’t seeing his seeing or saying
Q&A
March 7, 2025 § Leave a comment
We’re past waiting for what’s coming, it’s on its way and as previewed.
And many of the questions we are asking now are based on and in a world order already plundered. So the question asked of an elsewhere born but ultimately american bred naturalized citizen are you sorry you came back is purblind and unwittingly unwitting.
And piques my own hot nerve: as if there is somewhere to run to as if one can escape each their/our own vulnerability.
The world now is the frying pan; we are all next_in_line in the twisty business of hearth heart home and sovereign_ty.
the word I couldn’t find yesterday
February 23, 2025 § 1 Comment
Draggletrodden (adj) not really a sorrow but a melancholy, (Verb,int) to draggletrod, adj draggletroddenly (adv)
- Being be_draggled and down_trod as if one were unkempt and disheveled of spirit
as if the thinning was not of the vaginal wall but a floundering resilience of the spirit, a flagging of of the emotional containment sac; the vague shape of cooked noodles; the face of a face gone slack after the tumor is taken out of ones head - The waning hours of a lover’s visit just before the tide turns, just before the here now becomes not going to be here now just before the time comes just before living in the moment is living in the moment you’d rather not live in, the breath before the having gotten there, and there you are: not having moved on and now, you are draggletrodden; draggletrodding on the sultry Sunday that isn’t sunny at all. ,
It’s color is vaguely brownpurplegrayblue depending on the slope of the sun
3rd eye woman
May 7, 2024 § Leave a comment
Third eye woman
the seeing of course is metaphore; it is a porosity
it is not on a single plane it is multifocal it is with
and from all directions all sensations mediated with&
with in from the webs of our biomes it is a sympoiesis
yes that, it is dendritic it is our tendrils it is a within and a
without it is an over all overall it is boundless and bound to
the all and nothing it is an an allowance and allowing an open
ing unto a listening a gleaning a discerning an amazement a ferocity
it is not a beauty to behold in the human way of under taking a beauty
to have or to hold it is not single minded it is everything all at once;
it is a sounding of the sound of tides and moons in the eternal
dancing of ebb and flow of waxing and waning of life and
death
show cased
April 26, 2024 § 3 Comments
with thanks to Dena Bliss, for making the space in the library available to local book artists and
to the many others near&far who over the years have supported/challenged me
&played/collaborated/shared conversation with me and
to a newfound wizard who is going to teach me to diagram&parse my sentences!
re align ment
February 21, 2024 § Leave a comment
not there nor not here
over and over & under and over & under and with standing
here.say. 