5/8  so much of art is a solitary activity, who can write/paint/compose/focus in a crowd. crowds are sources of energy and input, so I don’t think most artists (like most humans) can exist in solitude. did a long reading last night, started around 12 people but grew to around 20. did by all accounts a fine job. 12-20 people.

at Portland art museum saw fine exhibits by Mark Rothko and John Frame (if you don’t know his work check out his site.) people who created in solitude. Rothko had his social outputs, at least for a while, through the art scene and teaching. Frame’s creations are very meticulous.

so we do these things, like adding a trace metal to the cultural soil it couldn’t exist without. a particular alchemical talent. and you know alchemy I spiritual, trans-dimensional. when multiple time-lines are co-existing the easiest magic/evolution/change shifting wherne you are. though you can never know all the changes, trusting in some newtonian conservation that a focused change only effects a couple strands/genes/micro-parameters.

from Frame’s masks & gestures to Rothko's glowing smears of  ________ color. so much is possible. 

instead of altering strands currently existing we can add new ones through our imaginations, suggest, between every two trees is at least one door. every time you change your mind, like going left instead of right, is a roll of a die with so many sides, most of them splinters.

here to spew. to put together what hasn't been introduced. something guides the choices, the pieces of present