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all i can say about The Lonely Letters is:
1) it originally wasn& #39;t a "project" but letters i wrote but wouldn& #39;t send to a boy (the first three letters written, which aren& #39;t even in the jawn because privacy lol)
1) it originally wasn& #39;t a "project" but letters i wrote but wouldn& #39;t send to a boy (the first three letters written, which aren& #39;t even in the jawn because privacy lol)
2) i began writing mostly to work out ideas about love and loneliness.
3) when i began to more in earnest think about it as a collection of ideas (and not to that one boy), it was gonna be titled "moth& #39;s powder"
3) when i began to more in earnest think about it as a collection of ideas (and not to that one boy), it was gonna be titled "moth& #39;s powder"
4) at least half of the letters that were in that initial group are not in this project at all, though they were touchtone reference points for this writing
5) i wouldn& #39;t have begun painting AT ALL if it wasn& #39;t for my dear friend sending me a video of a 3yo abstract painter in 2011
6) i stopped writing in what was then "moth& #39;s powder" around about 2014. i didn& #39;t pick it up again until 2016, mostly because the first book had just come out and i didn& #39;t want to read from it for book talks. i was being lazy and decided to read edited versions of the letters.
7) four of the "moth& #39;s powder" letters are in the first book
8) it wasn& #39;t until late december 2016, after i& #39;d started writing letters again that fall, that i decided to maybe publish the jawn. maybe. possibly. still was unsure.
8) it wasn& #39;t until late december 2016, after i& #39;d started writing letters again that fall, that i decided to maybe publish the jawn. maybe. possibly. still was unsure.
9) i ain& #39;t begin painting until fall 2017 when i moved to virginia. i was rereading letters about a painting process and the little girl that i& #39;d written in 2011. decided to try it since i had space and time. that& #39;s what began my artistic practice. it& #39;s all surreal and new to me.
10) the book being published this month is literally only by chance. it& #39;s eerie and strange how loneliness and isolation are such big concepts in the book and are being experienced collectively at this very specific moment in time.
11) i hope blackqueer practice can be generative, not as identity, but as a method of relation.
