Contents
I. Shoutout to Ed Ruscha
Hello I Must Be Going
We’re This and We’re That, Aren’t We?
Depths of Despair
Hurry Up Schedule
It’s Only Vanishing Cream
Woman on Fire
S.S. Nevertheless
Decibel House
History Kids
These Are Brave Days
Thinking the Same
Falling but Frozen
Historical Dust
A Life that Doubles-Back on Itself
Water Soluble Dreams
Those of Us Who Have Double Parked
Varieties of Internal Torment
Hello I Must Be Going
Uncertain Frontier
Century Sickness
Made in California
II. The Silent Docent
Landscape with Pink Tulips Distorted by Dread
Landscape with Active Shooter Cutting through a National Park
Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking
Landscape with American Sycamore and the Severed Heads of Bees
Landscape with Blurred Figures Running toward the Vanishing Point
Landscape with Pumpjacks Overtaken by Vines
Landscape with Protesters on One Side, Police on the Other, a Pasture in Between
Landscape with Abandoned Picnic and Flames
Landscape with Doctor Taking a Breather
Landscape with Cheetah Going Seventy in the Serengeti
Still Life (2020)
III. Beside Our Breaths
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Bones
Ai Weiwei’s Middle Finger
Marina Abramović’s Gaze
Meditation on Impermanence
Notes
Acknowledgments