Winter

Field Study Proposal

On this one month long feild study titled R is for Ruins, I will be taking an in depth look into what it means to be in a state of ruin or be in ruinicity. This means that I will be taking a good hard look at not only our conventional concept of ruins but I will be looking at society, culture, art, and self as a ruin or in the process of being in ruins. I plan to look at multiple texts but two titles that will be following me will be the book called Urban Wildscapes and another titled Industrial Ruins. I plan to incorporate poetry and artistic mediums in order to convey the ruination of Grays Harbor County, with a few situations or in depth looks into similar cases of ruination.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• R week 8 log March 3, 2013 February 25th 5hrs reading 3hr writing and experimenting with different poetic formats February 26th 5hrs writing 1hr – experimenting with html for presentation 1hr with different freeware for video capture for poetry observed project February 27th 2 hrs ...
• r- Week 7 log February 24, 2013 February 18th 4hrs reading 1hr writing and experimenting with different poetic formats February 19th 5hrs in Aberdeen and Hoquiam +writing notes while there + photography 1hr – Reading and Responding to Seminar Passes 1hr experimenting ...
• R-Log week 6 February 16, 2013 Crystal Muns Week 6 log Feb 11 5 hours reading 3 hours writing Feb 12 6 hours reading 1.5 hashing out thoughts in journal Feb 13 3 hours in Montesano (day time) 1 hour writing 4 hours reading Feb 14 3 hours of ...
• R week 5 log January 30, 2013 February 4th 2 hours – Yoga/peer review @ Evergreen 2 hours – Reading the book Ruins 1 hours – Writing February 5th 3 hours – derive to downtown Aberdeen -taking pictures of old structures along ...
• R – Practice weekly log post January 23, 2013 “If in the late twentieth century, as Lyotard has claimed, architecture and philosophy lie in ruins, leaving us only with the option of a ‘writing of the ruins’ as a kind of ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Week 8 Bachelard —Wheeler Ave. February 27, 2013 Wheeler Ave. Her wooden bones ache with the arthritis of winters countless embraces, snuggled up with the cobwebs and forgotten frames, she’s become lonely in her old age. If you take the time and talk ...
• “A Whole Vanished Universe” -R week 7 Bachalard February 24, 2013 “A Whole Vanished Universe” There is a certain smell that clings to these old places, it isn’t something easily defined by word or rhyme it is something particular to that time. It evokes those ...
• Hope in the Ruins —Bachelardian reverie #2 February 16, 2013 I come from broken buildings all crumpled over in despair. I come from penniless pockets and broken dreams, It’s a hard round world, constant infinity, the you is I, and I is U and we are nowhere ...
• R week 5 Bachelardian Reverie February 9, 2013 Ungendered The Femininity of words, is lost on the trickling of the brook, which can be defiled of lifted up by her opposite.   Scilence! the gender doesn’t matter It’s how you frame the picture, be it by candle and ...

Poetry

• A brief history of Hoquiam and Aberdeen I was looking back and decided that It would be beneficial to post a short history of industry in Hoquiam and Aberdeen, with links to more in depth histories at ...
• Little Nowhere Little Nowhere Some times there is a hope in the rot, Sometimes the roach is just another sign that we’re alive, The frailty of ruined frames draw power from ones own insecurities, Shove it away, Shove ...
• White-Walls Tale I  walk beneath the halls of old and in due time I felt as though the world above was as below, yet I could not see the truth be told past all the gloom ...
• La Vogue’s You’ve come a long way from the pet roaches behind the table there in back, where they hissed in their tank and the scent of damp wood clung to our nostrils. You’ve come a ...
• Heart of Decay These streets are narrow leading me on to the gates of heaven or hell, (It is what you make of it) and decasia slips through the floor boards, trickling onto my toes and pouring into ...

Poetry Observed

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