Elbow Macaroni Love Cascade
An unpublished book of hybrid couplings. Remixing, sampling, and mashing are the composing methods; "twinning" the organizational logic. The short fictions and poetry came first, composed using language culled and reworked from books found in flea markets, garage sales, and public library discard shelves: young adult biographies, romantica, kitschy horror paperbacks, pulp detective novels, outdated software manuals, commentaries by clairvoyants, vintage hygiene primers, old grammar handbooks. (Images below; text not shown.)
Later I worked up a collage for each of the pieces—visual captions triggered by the corresponding text. As with the writing, the images draw from found materials: old encyclopedias, ancient newspapers, vintage fabrics, wallpaper samples, and crumbling ephemera.
The manuscript is a sustained exercise in call and response on several levels. Texts are a mishmash of juxtaposed voices. Various materials interact within the images. And in the gutter between each pairing, an inferred dialogue starts to manifest. At least that’s the idea.
Oh My God Did You Say Pooh Bear....
If This Jug Could Lift the Moon
The Paralyzing Perfume of Beauty
If It Weren't for Real Butter
Heavenly Spheres
Aperture
After Clark My Life Was Over
Twelve Dreams for Jung
Earth Science
Surgeon Dan
Would That
Genesis
Dreams of Lotus
Tintype
Mrs. Lady Moon
Futurology
Smelling the Numbers
Dramatis Personae
All These Miles and Miles of Stitches
Murder Mystery
Arktos