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Songs & Things & Dreams & Mud

Songs & Things & Dreams & Mud
Essays on art in place, on precariousness & survival,
on living with artists, on the muddiness of grief & song,
on floods and what it means to name a thing.
Or: some thoughts.

Posts tagged political landscape
Mud Canción

Let us imagine, for a moment, that two geographies that seem to have very little in common, can be linked by physical matter. That, despite their differences in latitude and longitude, in political history and language, that they might be bound (at least for an imagined instant) by something as subtle as the seasonal pattern of rain, as insidious as the unplanned sprawl of urban development, or as seemingly unremarkable as mud.

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