F405i SESSION 5

Good morning everyone!

This course has been a dream to facilitate. It was a nebulous hunch that I had, that this could be a productive way through and into a studio practice. You guys all gave so much of yourselves–the group dynamic really pushed us all along at this really, really strange time.

I went into the studio this morning and made some notes in an open book. Perhaps a fitting analogy for this course and what it has given me. As are home, thinking about what is around us anew, and imagining new uses –reimaginged manillas with Cherith (!) and Lexie’s vellum/mother’s sketchbooks/journals that can now house a full scope of her writing and images. I feel a sense that my lens for seeing is sharper, for understanding. And so many ideas to implement, not as a another task but as a way to understanding. Thank you all!!!!

I appreciate John’s bulk of PDF, and am aiming to organize my reading a bit more. Right now my books are in piles (that again) around the house, depending on when I get there; morning chair for Richard Rohr and poetry, Night stand for fiction, kitchen for kids and cooking. I always bookmark in my phone but never seem to habit to it. So I try to send the bookmark to Pinterest, where I actually have a board called “read, again”.

Cary’s charge to make an “emancipatory” practice/zine rings true. That’s a tall and great mandate. And how we can also look to history (Emma, your grandfather and “khaki!”, Andy and Cary’s history, me and John, me and Cherith….and on and on) to fold onto itself and inform us anew. Also totally stealing Emma’s term “off beam”.

Andy, your notes are rich! Of course, come back to this course (thanks John!) and revisit when we all have space. But I also think this time frame, what we allow ourselves to discover now, can teach us how to be in our “typical” lives ahead. Hoping power is ON by now.

THANK YOU ALL! Excited for one-on-ones. -Jo

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