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Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354K 'misunderstanding is ...
Last post by droqen - Today at 12:14:19 AM
Quoteit is now commonly accepted that . . . artists [exist]. many people however don't seem to think of [misunderstanding] (the action of . . . [misunderstanding] a [work]) as art on the terms of art alone. most serious [misunderstanding]-as-vocation is in the form of [criticism] or as a background activity for . . . entertainers. neither example is necessarily [misunderstanding]-as-art. there is an art to them, but it's not innate to [misunderstanding]--it just involves [misunderstanding] to serve its own specific kind of art. all [misunderstanding] can be art on its own if only you framed it.
#2
Today, and Other Todays / 354K 'misunderstanding is art'
Last post by droqen - Today at 12:07:59 AM
i'd like to play with ivysly's "gameplay is art":
#3
Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354I pose questions
Last post by droqen - April 18, 2026, 03:00:14 PM
this poem is a reminder of the right attitude to have around curiosity.
#4
Today, and Other Todays / 354I pose questions
Last post by droqen - April 18, 2026, 02:42:41 PM
"pose questions
 and body answers.
#5
Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354E things that aren't ot...
Last post by droqen - April 15, 2026, 10:14:33 PM
(written from memory) this poem is a reminder to myself
to look and see
and look again until i see again
and look again and again, and again and again (again)
and again and again and again,
and again and again and again and again,
and again (again) and again and again (again, again) and again again,
and again (again, again) and again again (again),
and again and again (again, again) (again)
and (again) again and again and again and again,
until i see.
#6
Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354E in a city skyscrapers
Last post by droqen - April 14, 2026, 04:16:50 PM
this poem is a reminder to myself to look and see and look again until i see again and look again and again, and again and again (again), and again and again and again, and again (again) and again and again (again, again) and again again, and again and again and again and again, and again again (again), and again and again (again, again) (again), and (again) again and again and again and again, until i see.
#7
Today, and Other Todays / 354E things that aren't other ...
Last post by droqen - April 14, 2026, 04:13:19 PM
"i live in a city and in a city skyscrapers
 clouds and traffic
 water and people
 and you and i
 and pigeons and pigeons
 and peers and peers
 and cement
 and streets
 and smoke
 and steam."

"but if we look without seeing
 what we see
 what will we see?
 what will will we see?"


#8
Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354D wasting
Last post by droqen - April 13, 2026, 06:53:27 PM
a poor reminder to myself that waste is as inevitable as the four hundred longing fish in the sea. the fish will die, the signal fades, what we kill we kill. waste, waste, waste.

p113 of The Impossible Reversal describes a certain perspective by Georges Bataille in which an ever-present "plenitude" always leads to the inevitability of waste, and that the only outcome for such plenitude is that it will "[be] squandered in useless pursuits of art and ritual, [or] build into the destructive force of murder and war". cast in this light, waste -- art -- is the only way to stave off the devastation of unavoidable plenty.
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Today, and Other Todays / 354D wasting
Last post by droqen - April 13, 2026, 06:45:29 PM
"i cannot shake a wasting
 feeling all our secrets meaning
 when we come to kill, and find
 a wasting feeling signal reeling
 in our dreams four hundred longing
 fish when all is said and done
 and wasted, by the sea."
#10
Today, and Other Todays / Re: 354A what i want at the go...
Last post by droqen - April 10, 2026, 10:14:20 PM
this poem walks the line between two worlds and asks me to do the same.