{"id":153,"date":"2013-12-13T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:09:05","slug":"process-progress-hot-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Process    progress    hot potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decide something radical \u2013 I decide not to decide.\u00a0 All the possibilities are left soft and open, unfolded, unsewn.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give it a future.\u00a0 Today\u2019s the day to hang the coyote head over the door of my studio, and the lucky playing card, and write, &#8216;Don\u2019t Give it a Future,&#8217; again, in graphite cursive\u00a0over the door.<\/p>\n<p>We give and we get, but number A, we make them both up ourselves, and number B, thinking of what I am giving creates momentum and joy, and thinking about what I am getting creates stress and anxiety. Simple instructions for living.<\/p>\n<p>I look at the shadows of this piece, like the edges of shells.\u00a0 And think about what it means to introduce movement.\u00a0 When they are still, the simplest fact presents \u2013 the shape of the shadow is not the same as the shape of the object.\u00a0Actions make the piece&#8230; here is clubfooted English, again, with action and movement.\u00a0 Process progress hot potato<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0<\/span>Later again, always Later, the now with respect for its roots.<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, <i>just for it<\/i>, imagine the story is something the self is making &#8211; by hook or by crook, the self is making it, imagine that \u2013 the Nabokov and the Bach (radical and hard to swallow, but remember boys and girls we are only having <i>fun<\/i>) math and neutrinos, and the way a goat smells.\u00a0 Ever-last-damn language, and what outer space looks like when you see it through these infinitesimally teensy wet little pinholes.\u00a0 All of it made, every which way, unseen from here, also made by self.\u00a0\u00a0 Pardon me if I press the space bar too many times.\u00a0 And how it teaches itself through individualtion, differentitation, deef-air-ahnce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decide something radical \u2013 I decide not to decide.\u00a0 All the possibilities are left soft and open, unfolded, unsewn.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give it a future.\u00a0 Today\u2019s the day to hang the coyote head over the door of my studio, and the lucky playing card, and write, &#8216;Don\u2019t Give it a Future,&#8217; again, in graphite cursive\u00a0over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Process    progress    hot potato<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}