Wednesday, 19 August 2015

make yourself your own subject

make yourself your own subject

the past
not history but the past

Old Redmond
ontario place
the mythical utopia of Daddy's basement
disposable cameras with expiry dates in the mid-'00s 
a preoccupation with hideous teal bat-winged '80s sweatshirts 
Maya Fuhr
my now-antiquated well-intentioned sticker-plastered prayer journals
Uncle Shayne's mix tapes and their long-winded names
the importance of Shakespeare's Sister and their forgotten aesthetic to my 2008 self
the dead little boy with an angel face an an artifical jew-fro
the oppressively hypnotic '60s sci-fi sensibilities of the Centre Pompideau 
Duane Hanson's Queenie
Desperately Seeking Susan

these things incite a visceral reaction in me; make me squirm 
all of these things together mean something



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