Table of Contents
I Shoutout to Ed Ruscha
Hello I Must Be Going 5
We're This and We're That, Aren't We? 6
Depths of Despair 8
Hurry Up Schedule 12
It's Only Vanishing Cream 14
Woman on Fire 16
S.S. Nevertheless 18
Decibel House 20
History Kids 21
These Are Brave Days 22
Thinking the Same 23
Falling but Frozen 25
Historical Dust 28
A Life that Doubles-Back on Itself 29
Water Soluble Dreams 30
Those of Us Who Have Double Parked 32
Varieties of Internal Torment 33
Hello I Must Be Going 35
Uncertain Frontier 36
Century Sickness 38
Made in California 39
II The Silent Decent
Landscape with Pink Tulips Distorted by Dread 45
Landscape with Active Shooter Cutting through a National Park 46
Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking 47
Landscape with American Sycamore and the Severed Heads of Bees 49
Landscape with Blurred Figures Running toward the Vanishing Point 51
Landscape with Pumpjacks Overtaken by Vines 52
Landscape with Protesters on One Side, Police on the Other, a Pasture in Between 54
Landscape with Abandoned Picnic and Flames 56
Landscape with Doctor Taking a Breather 57
Landscape with Cheetah Going Seventy in the Serengeti 58
Still Life (2020) 59
III Beside Our Breaths
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Bones 63
Ai Weiwei's Middle Finger 65
Marina Abramovic's Gaze 67
Meditation on Impermanence 71
Notes 81
Acknowledgments 83