Category Archives: anthropology

Or Shall We Die?

Posted on December 19, 2021 by randomyriad

From the Writing of “or shall we die?” by Ian McEwan from Granta 7, originally published 1983. For all the complex discussion of nuclear strategy with unique blend of logic and paranoia, at heart, the situation had about it the … Continue reading →

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Life After the Fall

Posted on November 27, 2021 by randomyriad

FOR WHAT BINDS US There are names for what binds us:strong forces, weak forces.Look around, you can see them:the skin that forms in a half-empty cup,nails rusting into the places they join,joints dovetailed on their own weight.The way things stay … Continue reading →

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2021 Graphic Journal #37: Sept 25- Oct 14

Posted on October 15, 2021 by randomyriad

Surviving

Posted in Abstraction, All part of the process, anthropology, autumn, Being Human, bodyworks, change, Drawing, Family, Fools Journey, Geographies of Death, House and home, internal landscape, Loss and Leaving, mindworks, My Art, my life, paying attention, Self-Experiments, the end is the beginning, visions from the dark side, Works in Progress | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Perspective Matters

Posted on September 18, 2021 by randomyriad

“We,” human beings, are first and foremost the subjects who do the observing of this world, the collective makers of the photograph of reality that I have tried to compose. We are the nodes in a network of exchanges (of … Continue reading →

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2021 Graphic Journal #34: Sept 7- Sept 9

Posted on September 10, 2021 by randomyriad

September Blackberries

Posted in All part of the process, anthropology, Art in Nature, Being Human, bodyworks, Books, change, Collage, delusions of progress, doodles, Life with Animals, Loss and Leaving, make your own world, mindworks, mountains, My Art, On the Salish Sea, Other peoples words, philosophy, poetry, Self-Experiments, thinking in words, Wild Life, Works in Progress | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment