MAKING ART
Symbolism is both hollow and solid, a crutch, yes, but what’s so wrong with needing help to get around?
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
Often I find myself writing about an apparent subject that is concealing an almost opposite object. To write about hatred is to see love, vividly. Violence, intimacy. Divinity, humanity.
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
Yet books were finite, podcasts were finite, films had last frames, everything has an end or if not an end then at least—sure, OK, fine—a deadline. Couldn’t we at least find an adequate phrase or image that didn’t feel like a cop-out, a feint, or a compromise? Couldn’t we reach an ending that didn’t lie about the end?
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius B
... See moreNearly every time I’ve written a novel something happens in between its completion and its publication that makes it clear to me that I knew something I didn’t know I knew while I was writing, and that buried knowledge, that unknown known, has been expressed in the fiction, without my awareness. What I think I’m doing when I write a novel and what
... See moreMy creative voice, in all stages of development, is my friend.
Looking for a Pep Talk From the Past
“Two people who want the same thing will never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things, or one person who wants into an absence, a void.” Audition by Katie Kitamura
Out of Bounds
The question is between late-stage millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers, and mid to early stage millennials and Gen Zs. And it is that whole question of, “Am I being fairly paid for this?” What Gen X sees, and again, I’m not representing it fairly probably, but I will represent my generational stance. What Gen X sees is, and is concerned about, is you... See more
extendedplay.thecivilians.org
Art is not an industry or a game; it is a practice. I’d tell that girl nine years ago that, over and over again, it’s your artistic faith that will save you. I’d tell her it’s kind of punk to take the long road.