plugged in

at this very moment i am at home, laying in the bed that serves as a couch in the large 2 roomed parlor of the rambling apartment i share with giorgio.  i have a bedroom but it mostly serves as a dressing room, strewn with clothing & pieces of art (projects) & books & candles.  i like to sleep in the window, equal distances from the fake fireplace, the altar & the big flat screen tv.  i like to look out at the park & tell time off the street clock.  i like to sleep with people chattering below me.  i even like the train whistle(s) & the changing traffic lights

for some reason, sleeping in the living room makes me wake up expectant, like a kid on christmas morning

i like it

i am hardly ever home for more than a few nights in a row, but now, right now, at this very moment, i am settling in.  i have unpacked, scrubbed the floors, bought some new incense & some new sheets & some groceries. i sit in (the other) window & stare out & breathe.  it feels good, if a little sad, to have stopped moving around for a while

right now there is a new media, site-specific show in my town, called plugged in & coincidentally me & my boys: jonathan (peacock), deep & giorgio are in the show too, so it's really like some kind of ongoing joint birthday party . . last week we were all on a wicked charette, running all over in our various mad tech furies & this week there is video art going on all over the place, some running all night long, haunting the lonely after hour quasi victorian/post honky tonk streets . . J & D & G's piece is called

Eutopia VIDEO art Phalanx

& it's one of the over the top ones that fill the night. it's on a billboard right in the middle of town & we have had to babysit it & check on it at all hours. it's may but it's been cold & we bundle up & stand in the street & watch the clouds & the visions.  they appear to be on some kind of magic carpet & through the illusion of blue screen they pull people up onto the carpet off the street & we on the ground get to watch what is in everyone's minds, what is in everyone's prayers . . . it is very loving & inclusive of everyone in town & in the middle of the night, when everything is quiet & the moon is heavy & full, i feel in love with the sky & everything (again) & the whole town (which makes me want to stick around for a while) & especially these beautiful men who love me & who make me feel so cherished

Comments

[denise]

what an amazing wonderful idea.