Photo: Miao Jiaxin
Rythm 33
Regular 6 hours of sleep every night. Fatigue, body is in recovery every Friday, sleeping until 1pm.Waking up with a cloud of heavy anxiety hanging over my bed. Blankets over face. It is 2pm. breakfast, avocado and tomato on bread, salted. Black espresso. School? School. Train. Monroe station. Weather, spring. Art bash opening tonight. Cheese, crackers, broccoli. No alcohol.Marlboro cigarettes. Writing . Overly nervously excited . I will become addicted to this.
Rythm33:
Lemon juice squeezed onto my back. There were 33 objects on the table. 1. Toothbrush 2. lemon 3. empty vodka bottle. 4. bottle of red wine, opened. 5. purple onion.6. long stick.7.belt.8.a satin polka dot slip.9.birthday cheesecake with strawberries, cream and jelly. 10. a wine glass.11.one gold leather stiletto shoe.12. scissors. 13. a knife.14.a knife.15.black chocolate.16.plastic bag.17.lipstick.18.olay face cream.19.bananna.20.cord.21.string.22.garlic.23.hairspray.24.red nail polish.25.a tube of red acrylic paint.26.an old hardback book, history of europe.27.thin paperback book, notes from underground by dostovesky.28.tweezers.29. large safety pin.30.stale half of a baguette.31.sticky tape.32.sharpie.33.raw egg.
*In need of a systematic routine of work. Diagram??? Diagram.
*Breakdown of My First Cultural Conditioning:
1. Music:singing/dancing.
2. Food/drink
3. Fables, stories, fictional lives, folk fairytales.
4. Cinema
5. Traditional academic art training
6. Still life
7. Landscape
8.Life-drawing
9.Literature:books
10.Fashion as aspiration to Western Fictional glamour.
11. Dostoevsky
12. Theater: Meyerhold
13. Mayakovsky and Constructivism
14. Politics:Soviet
15.Propaganda: Russian
work 0.001: Singing 1: a Russian eurovision song repeatedly. How many hours? Many hours. Start with one hour. Working with voice. Breaking down of my native language.
work 0.002: Dancing 1: Russian folk dance moves. How long? For hours. Start with one hour. Repeated moves, plucked from a dance learned in childhood. Which dance? I do not remember. Live or for video? Both.
work 0.003: Eating 1: dinner for one, buckwheat, borscht, onions, potatoes, herring, pickles, garlic, black bread, vodka. Crepes with cherry syrup for dessert. Black brewed tea. White tablecloth, white cloth napkin, crystal shot glass, crystal cantor of Stolichnaya vodka, crystal vase with one fresh red rose. Tea served in a glass, encased in ornate silver glass holder.
Eating very very slowly to the point of extreme jaw fatigue. The dinner should take 4 hours to consume.
work 0.004:
