Harnett-Hargrove

(circa 1983) 

i am listing 14 things people don't know about me. The custom is such that there is a bit of kiss + tell. Of course there is the minor problem of not knowing me at all. So, i’m going for acquaintance status so as not to have to start w/ complete basics. i’ll keep it light as i head toward that ambiguous bottom of the screen page. 

i am not use to digging for things folks may not know of myself. Usually i feel peoples eyes glaze over either in confusion or feigned respect. But since i can not see your eyes i'll throw out these lines — a few up close, mostly a few steps back.

First: In real life i tend to qualify everything i say (something about my dreaded conversation remorse) which makes it a bit tedious to listening to my own mind, because i'm forever returning to a conversation coming up w/ what i should have said. 

Second; i have a few very dear friends. i don’t tend to collect people. i never realize there is room for another, until a new friend finds me. + there's others i'll always love that have never given me a second thought.

Third; i think Toshiro Milfune was really cool. 

Fourth; Having recently gotten out of storage, again, i found a few things i had been collecting. Though i don’t tend to amass … here i found collections of obsolete library cards, springs, dice, S hooks, + smashed souvenir pennies. 

Fifth; i believe if there were a mandatory reading (or reading to) list for being human there would be an enormous influx of compassion capacity + collective genius. List to be compiled. 

Sixth; i cry easily. Soda commercials, dead poet recordings, recitals, roadkill, orphans. You name it. 

Seventh; i do not fluster + i wont buy into drama. i like only the drama appropriately placed on the theatrical stage. 

Eighth; i believe in having at least one work venture going in each of the project groups at any given time.

Ninth; i have climbed barrier fences, in this, + other countries to visit unavailable art.

Tenth; i do love a well-designed ampersand. 

Eleven; i am an olive oil + chocolate snob. This brings up the questions of compared to who? Only stating.

Twelve; A well timed spider-check around bedtime is always necessary. 

Thirteen; i swim in creative chaos. The peek of the creative wave dose not frighten me. i’m best suited to work on multiple project at any given time. Having something going, in all the basic project areas, is as it should be. A change of work, in the flux, gives rest + energy to the work sitting on the next table. 

fourteen; i have noticed that a conversation w/me is a bit like playing charades.

Sometimes you only know where your mind has been by writing down what it says between your ears.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.  -Mickey B.