16:42:18 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : https://bit.ly/34tpuya 16:45:02 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTT1ixG5V_zCWllDDDQlCZNxcKa-dAcbJC-C5w_TBgNV898f2X-pA-fFlRulal-AedllZFx7DL3ACfZ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 16:52:45 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTT1ixG5V_zCWllDDDQlCZNxcKa-dAcbJC-C5w_TBgNV898f2X-pA-fFlRulal-AedllZFx7DL3ACfZ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 17:00:38 From agnes borinsky : welcome welcome 17:01:29 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) NYC : Hi Agnes and everyone!! 17:01:30 From agnes borinsky : welcome all! we’ll start around 5 or 6 minutes after the hour 17:01:35 From agnes borinsky : where are people joining from? 17:01:43 From Sara Lyons she/they : hi everyone! 17:01:44 From Mukta Phatak : New Jersey! 17:01:45 From Paul Hufker : new brunswick 17:01:54 From Dan Hasse : nyc! 17:01:56 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : Brooklyn! 17:01:56 From Sara Lyons she/they : pasadena ca 17:01:57 From Nadiya Atkinson : Providence, RI! :) 17:02:06 From Paul Hufker : shout out to jersey, mukta! 17:02:19 From Derek McCormack : provincetown, ma 17:02:23 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Woo yes Paul! :) 17:02:24 From Maria Schirmer : NYC 17:02:24 From Hannah Wolf (She/Hers) : LA! 17:02:29 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : Blacksburg, VA 17:02:29 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : grounded in LA. Missing NYC and AUTUMN!!! 17:02:33 From kristen k (she,her) : seattle! 17:02:34 From will_brumley : Queens! 17:02:36 From Paul K. Smith : The Underground. 17:02:40 From Angel Hertslet : occupied ohlone land in the bay area, california 17:02:41 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : ramaytush online land, san francisco mission 17:02:43 From noah (he-him) : hi from the bronx 17:02:52 From Jake Stepansky : Cambridge, MA! 17:02:58 From Jacob Perkins : brooklyn 17:03:05 From Philip Gates : philadelphia 17:03:11 From agnes borinsky : If this is your first time joining us, please follow this link -- just to be official about acknowledging that we're recording this for archival purposes. Thank you!! https://forms.gle/jFZCPgxJx8Jbtaty6 17:03:29 From agnes borinsky : for those just joining, we’ll start in 3 or 4 minz 17:04:23 From agnes borinsky : so many good faces, y'all 17:04:43 From agnes borinsky : yesss yehuda! 17:04:45 From agnes borinsky : who else? 17:04:55 From Eliza Bent : greetings from the shores of lake michigan ;-) 17:05:11 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Agnes. Can I invite my friend Marcus if he’s free? 17:05:21 From Sara Lyons she/they : i love all your little faceboxes 17:05:23 From agnes borinsky : yah def! 17:05:25 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : I just finished watching a short play of his… 17:05:26 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : YAY!! 17:05:37 From agnes borinsky : okay 17:05:50 From Paul K. Smith : Cool. 17:06:01 From Paul K. Smith : Yes 17:06:55 From Paul Hufker : Raquel 17:06:58 From Jacob Perkins : saleh! 17:06:58 From ChanaPorter : my mother 17:07:00 From Angel : kyril 17:07:02 From Maria Schirmer : Marsha 17:07:04 From Jake Stepansky (he/him) : Eli 17:07:05 From Yehuda Hyman : Eva Maria Berg 17:07:05 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : laura 17:07:05 From Sara Lyons she/they : My sweet mom 17:07:05 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : my husband who is doing the dishes and bathing the child while i am here!! 17:07:05 From walker caplan : tisher 17:07:06 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Sarah 17:07:06 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : my grandmother 17:07:06 From will_brumley : Joyce 17:07:07 From Kendra Srebro (she/they) : my mom 17:07:08 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : abigail & shaun 17:07:10 From noah (he-him) : Asa 17:07:10 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : To Nick 17:07:11 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : everyone voting for the first time 17:07:12 From Pinar : my parents 17:07:13 From Maia Karo : Gil 17:07:15 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : The moon. Which I’m happy to be looking at right now. 17:07:17 From Dina Vovsi : Kunal 17:07:17 From Paul K. Smith : To the Ultimate Predator who must atone for His Sin of SIlence: GOD. 17:07:19 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : my parents 17:07:20 From Adam Mazer : america 17:07:20 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : Angel from the phonebank today 17:07:24 From Philip Gates : Marion 17:07:25 From Meghan D : My mother 17:07:27 From Kate Benson : Kara 17:07:29 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : My friend YVETTE HEYLIGER 17:07:29 From kristen k (she,her) : athena and lychi 17:07:30 From Eve Beglarian : dan s. and christy g. 17:07:35 From Eliza Bent : jane and bob 17:07:39 From Jessica Almasy : two deeply significant ex partners, one of a child one of a theatre company 17:07:48 From Dan Hasse : Ralph 17:07:54 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Oh and Nisha and Amil, characters I am working with in a play 17:08:04 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : I like that Mukta 17:08:35 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Thank you Sarah! My other answer was Sarah, I trust people with that name :) 17:08:55 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Yay, hope I live up to your trust. I think I will.. 17:10:25 From Paul K. Smith : @Jessiica: Whatever you are eating looks Wonderful 17:10:30 From Declan Zhang : love that activity for you dude 17:11:09 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Adam, where are you surfing? 17:11:11 From ChanaPorter : Adam please teach me how to surf 17:11:15 From Adam Mazer : okay yeah c’mon 17:11:19 From Adam Mazer : i go to balsa chica 17:11:25 From Adam Mazer : or actually sunset beach 17:11:27 From Sara Lyons she/they : I want to surf too 17:11:29 From Adam Mazer : it’s basically the same thing 17:11:30 From Sara Lyons she/they : let’s do it 17:11:32 From Adam Mazer : come on out! 17:11:38 From Adam Mazer : bolsa chica* 17:11:48 From Kendra Srebro (she/they) : that's where I am as well, Rebecca 17:11:52 From Dina Vovsi : Noel are you sitting in front of a fire and have fireflies been flying around you? 17:11:53 From Adam Mazer : only thing is you kinda missed the boat because it’s about to get colllld 17:11:54 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : psychically stressed, same 17:11:55 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : I was THE WORST SURFER EVER but kept trying every day for SIX YEARS!! 17:12:26 From Adam Mazer : oh nice!! 17:12:27 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : I am. I didn’t plan to be, but I’m happy to find myself here. 17:12:42 From Dina Vovsi : Looks nice!!! 17:14:53 From Yehuda Hyman : A beige orb 17:15:02 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : me 17:15:02 From Jessica Almasy : Ben’s mom. 17:15:03 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : I am a holy fool 17:15:07 From Jessica Goldschmidt : large puddle of grief 17:15:08 From Jacob Perkins : jacob 17:15:10 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : a lost child 17:15:11 From noah (he-him) : noah 17:15:11 From will_brumley : A queer feminist Kansan New Yorker bookworm 17:15:12 From Sara Lyons she/they : the impression I leave on others 17:15:12 From walker caplan : output 17:15:16 From Paul K. Smith : the wrath of man 17:15:18 From Paul Hufker : bundle of anxiety, looking to connect 17:15:19 From Adam Mazer : just some guy 17:15:22 From walker caplan : pushover 17:15:25 From Angel Hertslet : I am a human on my life's journey 17:15:25 From Meghan : here 17:15:26 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : pebble in the shape of a starfish 17:15:26 From ChanaPorter : eternal ray of light in a lovely flesh suit 17:15:27 From Jake Stepansky (he/him) : who i can be today 17:15:28 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : a tight bungled mess 17:15:29 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : a penguin 17:15:30 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : I am not in the future yet 17:15:30 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : reader 17:15:30 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : a little boy lost in his imagination 17:15:30 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : a floating head 17:15:31 From Ryan Gedrich : anxious about the supreme court and also everything 17:15:32 From Kate Benson : a dumbstruck wishing to be a snowple 17:15:33 From Kendra Srebro (she/they) : I'm Kendra (she/they) 17:15:36 From Kate Benson : snowplow 17:15:47 From Pinar : just one person 17:15:47 From Maia Karo : Me 17:15:50 From Maggie Cino : a collaborator 17:15:51 From Dina Vovsi : A head/heart seesaw 17:15:51 From Paul Hufker : love that answer, Kate 17:16:06 From Philip Gates : assemblage 17:16:08 From Declan Zhang : I’m not the only Declan Zhang in the world— but I hope I am the only one that’s a fag 17:16:15 From Jessica Almasy : MY LIZARD !!!!!!!!!!!! 17:16:15 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : candle 17:16:18 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : my cat simone 17:16:18 From Yehuda Hyman : the night 17:16:19 From Sara Lyons she/they : houseplants!!!!! 17:16:21 From Jordan Baum : my mother 17:16:22 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : Lots of toddler toys 17:16:22 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : the fire in the woodstove 17:16:22 From Pinar : my plants 17:16:23 From Kate Benson : my neighbors 17:16:24 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : how far around me 17:16:25 From Adam Mazer : possibility 17:16:25 From noah (he-him) : Unfinished projects 17:16:25 From ChanaPorter : my partner, our dog 17:16:26 From Hannah Wolf (She/Hers) : open window 17:16:26 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : So much snow outside 17:16:27 From Angel : unfathomable accumulation 17:16:27 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : mint in the window box 17:16:28 From walker caplan : plants of guy who rents this house 17:16:28 From will_brumley : My chihuahua Desi in a dog bed next to me on the floor 17:16:28 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : the basil plant (i hope), my parents 17:16:28 From Marcus’s iPhone : I am an artist of our times. 17:16:29 From Paul K. Smith : the Past, only the past is alive. 17:16:29 From Jacob Perkins : there’s someone listening to music in their car on the street 17:16:29 From Maia Karo : My tea 17:16:30 From Nadiya Atkinson : Basils and succulents 17:16:31 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : my sourdough starter Jed 17:16:32 From Jessica Almasy : MEALWORMS 17:16:33 From lyndseybourne : kombucha i’m brewing! 17:16:33 From Jake Stepansky (he/him) : the side of the bed that he slept on last night 17:16:33 From Angel : trees 17:16:34 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : Two cats, multiple house plants (including 2 new large additions) and a partner cooking 17:16:36 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : My brother 17:16:37 From Kate Benson : night-blooming flowers in my garden 17:16:37 From Meghan : My neighbor 17:16:40 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : boiling water 17:16:40 From Kate Benson : trees 17:16:41 From Angel Hertslet : The dog, the plants, the songbirds, the veggies, the trees, even the ones that were just seriously pruned 17:16:42 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : my child my husband the plants my husband tends to my books me and the bugs in the walls and the night bird outside 17:16:43 From Kate Benson : slugs 17:16:43 From Paul Hufker : cats and plants, but if we tweak our perspective just slightly, maybe everything? 17:16:45 From Kate Benson : my partner 17:16:45 From walker caplan : shower 17:16:46 From Maria Schirmer : my cat 17:16:47 From Philip Gates : cat, plant, partner, roommate, candle 17:16:47 From Jessica Goldschmidt : birds, my parents down the hill, NOT my phone 17:16:48 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : oh there is also a mouse! 17:16:50 From Ryan Gedrich : my money tree and spider plant and cactus thingy 17:16:56 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : my neighbors 17:17:00 From Eve Beglarian : new jasmine plant, gray cat, floorboards 17:17:02 From Dan Hasse : The cat on my feet 17:17:03 From will_brumley : voices in the courtyard outside 17:17:05 From Declan Zhang : yes echoing the mice in the walls 17:17:05 From Jessica Almasy : CRICKETS 17:17:06 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : The bug that has been biting me 17:17:07 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : grass 17:17:09 From Marcus’s iPhone : plants, graphic novels and a bottle of wine. 17:17:09 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : The survival of my abandoned planted avocado seed 17:17:13 From Derek McCormack : zz plant. roommate eugene. tiny spiders 17:17:19 From will_brumley : and people clanking keys in the lobby 17:17:20 From Hannah Wolf (She/Hers) : The roller skater upstairs 17:17:22 From Dina Vovsi : Dog, partner, plants ’n’ neighbors. Feral cats outside as well, and trees. 17:17:23 From agnes borinsky : songbirds, skunk 17:17:25 From Olivia Mole : two plants, five animals, windows 17:17:27 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : those funny long bugs with the legs that eat the other bugs 17:17:31 From Jessica Almasy : my mother watching Law and Order on infinite loop 17:17:36 From noah (he-him) : The river of traffic 17:17:39 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : a cat, dog, an older man at the end of his life, six sisters/daughters, a husband. Trees. 17:17:49 From ChanaPorter : my marriage 17:17:51 From Chad Kaydo : @Jessica same! 17:17:53 From Adam Mazer : the weed i grew that’s now drying in my closet 17:17:54 From Sara Lyons she/they : the wood on this desk, my guitar 17:17:54 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : what around you was once did breath? or was part of something breathing and is no longer? (this is most things) 17:17:56 From Pinar : finished books, but they can be resuscitated 17:17:56 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : the wood in the fire 17:17:57 From Yehuda Hyman : My mother 17:17:57 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : my veggies in my fridge 17:17:58 From Kate Benson : the meat in my refridgerator 17:17:58 From Jessica Almasy : dried lavender 17:17:58 From Declan Zhang : the pork chops i am about to sear 17:18:00 From Dina Vovsi : Tea leaves 17:18:00 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : ambition 17:18:03 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : The floor 17:18:03 From walker caplan : clothes in boxes 17:18:04 From Philip Gates : two large pumpkins 17:18:05 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : Empty notebooks 17:18:05 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : the chicken bones i just put in the compost 17:18:05 From agnes borinsky : camomile, desk 17:18:06 From Jake Stepansky (he/him) : so many books, but they’re breathing in a different way now I think 17:18:07 From Paul K. Smith : my heart 17:18:07 From Declan Zhang : the wood of the table 17:18:07 From noah (he-him) : Cold candle 17:18:10 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : my desk 17:18:10 From Kendra Srebro (she/they) : these dead plants 17:18:10 From Meghan : Empty bowl 17:18:11 From Declan Zhang : the wood of the cutting board 17:18:14 From Eliza Bent : ambition 17:18:16 From Hannah Wolf (She/Hers) : Plants... 17:18:17 From Jacob Perkins : i’m staying in my roommate’s room who’s been living in massachusetts for the past few months. she’s still breathing somewhere but just not here. her room is palatial. 17:18:19 From Jessica Goldschmidt : wood walls, empty kombucha bottle, 17:18:19 From will_brumley : a ram’s skull 17:18:19 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : paper that’s in books and journals now was trees 17:18:20 From walker caplan : interest 17:18:22 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : Many people. The meat we ate tonight. 17:18:23 From Philip Gates : the ginger in my tea 17:18:24 From Jessica Almasy : the tooth my son lost two weeks ago in a ceramic jar from Paris to my right under a candle 17:18:24 From Maia Karo : Scrap papers, bottle of pills, passport 17:18:24 From Raphi (he/him they/them) : a friendship forged in protests and street parties that’s now confined to awkward favors over whatsapp 17:18:24 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : my comfort level in this burning parched city 17:18:25 From Paul Hufker : the hands of the workers who make stuff america buys 17:18:32 From Derek McCormack : my wooden tables. tea leaves. books. cotton 17:18:32 From Sara Lyons she/they : my sex drive 17:18:33 From Declan Zhang : the hops that made my PB frickin R!!!!! 17:18:34 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : empty coffee cup, one pressed daisy 17:18:34 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Me, in the moments I stop breathing 17:18:34 From Ryan Gedrich : my complacent sense of safety 17:18:35 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : all my grandmothers 17:18:35 From Marcus’s iPhone : My tolerance with bullshit. 17:18:37 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : my seaweed 17:18:37 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : the flat can of seltzer water 17:18:38 From Jordan Baum : brussels sprout stalk 17:18:42 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : mullein behind me 17:18:46 From Jordan Baum : pumpkins 17:18:46 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : yarrow stalk 17:18:47 From Jessica Almasy : a microphone that caught my voice two hours ago 17:18:47 From Declan Zhang : sara lyons ily 17:18:47 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : wine 17:18:48 From Pinar : some of my past goals 17:18:48 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : rose petal 17:18:54 From Olivia Mole : some other existence 17:18:54 From Chad Kaydo : books, so many books 17:18:55 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : hope 17:19:08 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : my hair 17:19:10 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : Victims of uncaring 17:19:16 From Declan Zhang : the metal of my chef’s knife 17:19:19 From Raphi (he/him they/them) : my stuffed animals 17:19:25 From Jacob Perkins : the mirror 17:19:26 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : hematite stone 17:19:26 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : the stones 17:19:26 From Yehuda Hyman : my Braun alarm clock 17:19:27 From Paul K. Smith : fear 17:19:29 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : the trash 17:19:32 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : Peanut butter cups 17:19:33 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : The window 17:19:34 From noah (he-him) : linoleum 17:19:35 From Dan Hasse : My boots 17:19:35 From Jessica Almasy : a turkey feather the sautée chef at my old restaurant plucked from his pet turkey George Washington. he had four turkeys in sequence all named George Washington, no numerical categorization 17:19:36 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : the glitter on my lisa frank notebook 17:19:36 From Olivia Mole : nothing 17:19:36 From walker caplan : water 17:19:38 From Kate Benson : my metal stairs 17:19:40 From Kendra Srebro (she/they) : these Barbie dolls 17:19:40 From Marcus’s iPhone : my ambition, my need to express myself. 17:19:40 From Sara Lyons she/they : the computer. the couch. the concrete outside 17:19:41 From walker caplan : statue 17:19:44 From Derek McCormack : metal, plastic, ceramics, glass. air? 17:19:44 From Maia Karo : My phone 17:19:46 From Hannah Wolf (She/Hers) : apple tv 17:19:47 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : microchip i don’t think 17:19:49 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : but maybe 17:19:50 From Philip Gates : money 17:19:52 From Ryan Gedrich : the way my eyes process light 17:19:52 From Kate Benson : the magnets on my metal bulletin board 17:19:52 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : i don’t know… 17:19:56 From walker caplan : tools 17:19:56 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : The stone I’m sitting on. The moon above. This computer. 17:19:57 From Kate Benson : they just stick all on their own 17:19:57 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : the water (but i think also it does breathe now) 17:19:58 From Declan Zhang : the clock on the wall! it doesn’t take a break 17:19:59 From will_brumley : paintings, which seem like something we breathe in, so this question is starting to feel debatable 17:20:00 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : water 17:20:02 From Jessica Goldschmidt : rock with a circle on it, plastic, pens ? 17:20:04 From Pinar : nothing for me I think 17:20:05 From Adam Mazer : ashes 17:20:05 From Jake Stepansky (he/him) : nothing? 17:20:14 From Patrick Ferreri - (he/him) : Now all I can see is breath 17:20:23 From Jessica Almasy : these crystals. a salt lamp. a bamboo bag that people say reminds them of Thailand and I just say its vintage. my feet. 17:21:41 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : to those that breathe, breathe to them (remember that you breathe) to those that no longer breathe, gasp & make a motion or a sound that helps you remember when they last did 17:23:36 From ChanaPorter : biggest breath I’ve taken all day :0 17:24:04 From lyndseybourne : me too chana! 17:25:19 From Raphi (he/they) : please come back <3 17:26:42 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : i wanna know if the cursing was good 17:27:46 From Sara Lyons she/they : I felt responsible for the death of the trees that made my furniture 17:27:47 From Paul K. Smith : @Yehuda, am sorry for your loss 17:28:06 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : That’s powerful Yehuda. A reminder 17:28:21 From Yehuda Hyman : Thank you Paul. It’s from long ago. Thank you. 17:28:26 From Marcus’s iPhone : I am also very sorry for your loss. My condolences to you and your loved ones. 17:28:42 From Yehuda Hyman : Thank you Marcus. 17:28:49 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : What kind of inventory did we just take? 17:29:04 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : We counted the breaths, past present and maybe future 17:29:06 From walker caplan : living things 17:29:07 From Jacob Perkins : breathing / not breathing / things that once breathed but do not any longer 17:29:11 From Adam Mazer : not a super comprehensive one 17:29:35 From Yehuda Hyman : An inventory of different responses to a prompt by a group of humans 17:29:46 From Jessica Goldschmidt : lung inventory 17:29:49 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : was going to say the same, Adam 17:29:50 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : capacity, lung and otherwise 17:29:50 From Paul K. Smith : an inventory of whom we are or were tethered to just to be and feel alive and bloom, of the people who might hear their hearts pounding in our chests 17:29:55 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : yes Jessica 17:30:12 From Jessica Goldschmidt : yes kelsey, to the otherwise! 17:30:14 From Jessica Almasy : a hierarchical spectrum of intimacies w animate and inanimate objects 17:30:18 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : took inventory of presences that have become part of my life - gratitude for them 17:30:28 From Jordan Baum : inventory of spaces for my body in which i wouldn’t be seen or heard 17:30:33 From noah (he-him) : like me (breathing) / once like me (breathed) / unlike me (never breathed) 17:31:03 From Sara Lyons she/they : doing is active, taking is passive 17:31:06 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : an inventory of what I've defined or not defined as living 17:31:27 From Jordan Baum : and the word Or 17:31:30 From Yehuda Hyman : inventory always makes me think of a list. What did we just do feels like one immediate thing. I feel like they are different parts of the brain. 17:31:59 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : That’s exactly how I feel Yehuda. 17:32:10 From walker caplan : time (what was the action) vs orienting our knowledge in space…. laying the things out in an array on the table (seeing them next to each other regardless if there is a time component to the inventory) 17:32:37 From walker caplan : arrow vs .. i suppose .. circling things 17:33:25 From Yehuda Hyman : Looking with the eyes and digesting 17:33:28 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : taking in a text 17:33:35 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Conversation 17:33:37 From Sara Lyons she/they : analyzing for meaning 17:33:37 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : taking in words 17:33:37 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : intuiting 17:33:41 From Declan Zhang : encountering 17:33:41 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : a series of processes 17:33:42 From Maia Karo : Translating 17:33:48 From Philip Gates : finding meaning 17:33:51 From Jessica Goldschmidt : devotional attention 17:33:53 From Sarah Sanders (she/her) : taking in with interpretation 17:33:53 From Paul K. Smith : a search for tools, for conceptual constructs with which to build: READING 17:33:54 From Angel Hertslet : a silent internalization 17:33:55 From Raphi (he/they) : reifying something as a text 17:33:56 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : scanning 17:33:57 From ChanaPorter : travel through space and time 17:33:59 From Raphi (he/they) : shooting off canons 17:34:01 From noah (he-him) : A dense kind of seeing 17:34:02 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : looking and searching 17:34:02 From kelsey stevenson - she/her : for me, seeing! 17:34:02 From kristen k (she,her) : jordan! an inventory of the word or? / that sounds right to me / although maybe i’m perpetually doing that 17:34:03 From Dina Vovsi : Visualizing and absorbing 17:34:03 From Paul Hufker : from someone else, to me 17:34:05 From Maia Karo : Imagining 17:34:11 From walker caplan : translating 17:34:12 From Jessica Almasy : i have no idea how i read. i can read a book out loud cold AND have my mind somewhere else entirely. 17:34:17 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : Being on the receiving end of communication 17:34:25 From Paul Hufker : partially, it's the act of passing from one to another 17:34:28 From will_brumley : looking for meaning or story through words 17:34:29 From Maggie Cino : deciphering code 17:34:29 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : listening 17:34:37 From lyndseybourne : placing my body next to something else and taking notice 17:34:47 From kristen k (she,her) : yes, maggie cino / for me too 17:34:49 From Paul Hufker : contextual understanding of given circumstances/stimuli 17:34:51 From Raphi (he/they) : speaking as a translator, i have to admit that i’m not sure i agree 17:34:58 From Raphi (he/they) : tho i think i’d be better if i did 17:35:19 From Raphi (he/they) : translation seems a lot like imposing writing/a different worldview on something 17:35:29 From Raphi (he/they) : the reading is obviously central, but not necessarily primary 17:35:33 From Raphi (he/they) : or something like that 17:35:38 From Olivia Mole : bringing something from outside, in 17:35:40 From Pinar : escaping, projecting, going out of my body 17:35:46 From Angel : travel 17:35:47 From Jessica Almasy : reading can be walking thro a wall 17:35:53 From Julia Izumi (she/her) NYC : opening (up) 17:35:59 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : taking in one thing at the cost of leaving something else out 17:36:45 From kristen k (she,her) : someone once told me all reading is misreading 17:36:52 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : I love that kristen 17:36:58 From Sara Lyons she/they : @kristen, yes 17:36:59 From walker caplan : that is so interesting, raphi — thinking about the 2nd def of translation as well (moving something from one place to another) which feels like a more ‘pure’ understanding of reading (idea goes from text/symbol to reader’s mind) but there is a process of prioritization w actual *translation* 17:37:02 From kristen k (she,her) : yeah it helped me a lot! 17:37:13 From walker caplan : which — one could say — happens with reading, though not necessarily purposefully 17:37:31 From walker caplan : mental highlighting, but to a lesser extent than actually translating/imposing new structure 17:37:36 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : inference , comprehension 17:37:44 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Reading is starting to feel like taking 17:37:44 From Philip Gates : word-guests! <3 17:37:48 From ChanaPorter : word guests! *love* 17:37:49 From Raphi (he/they) : totally, walker 17:37:49 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : word guests in your home that can make a huge mess 17:37:58 From Meghan : That’s great, Kate, thank you 17:38:04 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : i love that, Kate. thank you. 17:38:11 From Sara Lyons she/they : Reading is a relationship 17:38:37 From noah (he-him) : Is the hand raise enabled? 17:38:44 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : “You’re going to invite word guests into your home and they’re going to make a huge mess” love that, Kate 17:38:47 From Raphi (he/they) : reading w/tongue totally reminds me of the classic first lesson in hebrew school, when the teacher puts honey next to each letter 17:38:55 From Raphi (he/they) : so that the process of learning to read will be sweet 17:38:58 From Raphi (he/they) : (i think) 17:39:12 From ChanaPorter : I thought of that too, Raphi 17:40:35 From Jordan Baum : i think reading is darkness moving 17:41:39 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTT1ixG5V_zCWllDDDQlCZNxcKa-dAcbJC-C5w_TBgNV898f2X-pA-fFlRulal-AedllZFx7DL3ACfZ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 17:54:10 From Kate Benson : I think about learning to read cities (streets & life on the streets) all the time 17:54:15 From Kate Benson : fluency, literacry 17:54:28 From Raphi (he/they) : i love that, kate 17:54:47 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Kate - is there anything we can’t attempt to read? 17:56:37 From Angel : I suppose we are at all times reading, as a matter of staying safe and alive, and we all have different emphasis depending on our prior experience and inheritances on the spectrum of danger, along the spectrum of safety 17:57:48 From Kate Benson : yes I am still learning to read other people and I have a suspicion that if reading is transcription, we can’t read anything; but if reading is translation, we arrive with crude translations of other people’s thoughts 17:58:06 From Olivia Mole : maybe reading is a way of feeling the world, and reading with words is a way to feel a world or worlds that are not immediately, bodily present. So in a sense no verbal language is “native” in the sense of being born into it. our real native languages are touch, sight, energy, breath, presence etc 17:58:08 From Kate Benson : read other people = emotions/responses to situations 17:58:38 From will_brumley : I like that, Olivia. 18:00:11 From noah (he-him) : J. L. Borges suggest (inside a fiction) that there are no readers anymore, only writers “in potential or through the act" 18:00:13 From walker caplan : it is beautiful and hopeful to read without anticipation of future output / yourself spitting it out 18:00:18 From walker caplan : YES @noah..... 18:00:33 From Raphi (he/they) : @mukta, reading/writing/translating as editing as simultaneous erasure and hope is so, so lovely 18:01:02 From noah (he-him) : (He also posits that there are as many authors of the Bible as there are readers of the bible) 18:01:42 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Kate - this is so true and is the universal experience. Sometimes I remember being younger and only seeing people’s faces, not being able to read ANYTHING about what was in their hearts. I’m glad I at least recognize the face as being able to convey something of the emotional space someone is in 18:01:48 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : @mukta yes, writing our thoughts out so we can read them back. almost like we don’t trust our ability to convey our thoughts without writing them down first in order to speak (read) them outloud 18:02:25 From Chad Kaydo : Mukta’s mention of reading your own notes suggests how sometimes we write to figure out what we actually think or believe, in effect to read our own minds 18:02:50 From noah (he-him) : The silence of understanding 18:02:57 From walker caplan : @noah the experiment with the mice: “Recently, researchers at New York University proved that Proust got the mutability of memory right. First they conditioned rats to fear a loud noise by associating it with an electric shock. Then they gave them a chemical injection to stop their memory of the shock just as they were about to hear the noise. With their access to the memory temporarily blocked, the rats went on to lose the memory itself entirely. Their brains had reset. “A memory,” Lehrer writes, “is only as real as the last time you remembered it.”” 18:03:03 From walker caplan : (nytimes) 18:03:22 From walker caplan : to try to recall/access — itself an act of writing & rewriting 18:03:33 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : I feel as though I have not sat to consider what my own native language might be 18:06:33 From Sara Lyons she/they : Yes. language is public 18:07:09 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : yes, and which publics 18:15:16 From Sara Lyons she/they : this is writing as an invitation to notice all we can never know 18:16:10 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : It’s a record. 18:16:27 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : And an inventory also 18:16:33 From kristen k (she,her) : writing like all art-making is recording 18:16:34 From kekoamorris : Reminds me of Logos and speaking the world into being 18:16:54 From noah (he-him) : And who are these statues legible to (and how deeply — what context or foundational understandings are required to read them) I’m sure much of the life in that field doesn’t read them as we do 18:16:55 From kristen k (she,her) : oh yes mukta! right. 18:17:00 From Jordan Baum : fred moten writes that writing is recording improvisation 18:17:19 From kristen k (she,her) : i love that jordan 18:17:39 From Maia Karo : Yes, @Kate. Thank you for articulating that so beautifully. 18:17:46 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : It interrogates my connection of language to limiting from subconscious amorphous to conscious specific 18:17:57 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : but writing without language - YES 18:18:24 From Olivia Mole : writing is always a kind of world-making - when you write something you invent or re-invent, generate a world - then these statues are a world made and re-made, with clay words 18:18:41 From Kate Benson : yes and they give mass to that emotion 18:19:07 From will_brumley : yes both HOLD the feeling of story 18:19:14 From noah (he-him) : By writing into an object, it receives (an illusory?) permanence 18:19:34 From walker caplan : actors often told to ‘not play the emotion’ — as if emotion or expression of emotion is not a common language that can be read and conveyed (authentically)…. words/objective are conduit 18:19:37 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : each sculpture records the existence of a full life and story i will never know 18:19:53 From jody and jeffrey : Excellent point, Noah: the statues replace language so the viewers can read them without seeing/knowing the words, just like Renaissance painting iconography. 18:20:32 From noah (he-him) : True! Though a book-object also persists on a shelf, and there’s a great comfort in that 18:21:01 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : time - hmmmm. yes 18:21:53 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : There is so much cool linguistic theory on this that I know barely anything about - someone told me once that in the talent show of nature (bat’s sonar, etc) human’s talent is language. 18:22:28 From Jordan Baum : also interesting to think about an inventory taking up as much space as what it’s inventorying 18:22:38 From Kate Benson : one of my first jobs was taking the inventory of a bookstore and making it digital 18:22:51 From Kate Benson : so that the inventory did and didn’t exist anymore 18:22:55 From Maia Karo : Is an inventory a story? 18:23:08 From Jessica Goldschmidt : i often think of dance improv as body inventory 18:23:10 From Eli Gelb (he/him) : a collection 18:23:14 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : a cooked meal with intentional ingredients 18:23:20 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Inventory as a type of structuring 18:23:27 From Michael Leibenluft (he/him) : an inventory also feels like it references an idea of what should be present…or what is absent? Which seems similar with the clay figures 18:23:31 From Noel Allain (he/him/his) : a moral examination. 18:23:31 From Jessica Goldschmidt : stock-taking, what is there, what is there already 18:23:38 From Michael Leibenluft (he/him) : +1 18:23:40 From Katherine Agyemaa Agard (she/her) : an inventory must always take up space, and isn’t a representation of it..i guess a story is inventory if the story can have a kind of presence (new criteria for is it good enough for me maybe) 18:23:46 From walker caplan : lists / recipes prioritize size/quantity as an identifying characteristic 18:23:51 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Inventory is choosing - realizing what you need more of, what there is too much of 18:24:08 From Dina Vovsi : @Michael yes - I think of absence too - what is needed to feel whole again 18:24:13 From noah (he-him) : Inventory as a preparation - what do you do when you both have it & know that you have it 18:24:20 From Raphi (he/they) : @mukta, and there’s a violence of choice 18:24:25 From Raphi (he/they) : there’s something very rigid in the classification of an inventory 18:24:35 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : even digital inventory exists in space: servers, chips, wires…we still run out of space on disks, and so we they’re still spatial in some way 18:24:35 From Raphi (he/they) : this *is* what it is, and not anything else 18:24:51 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Yes @raphi! This violence has been throughout this session for me :( 18:25:14 From Sara Lyons she/they : when i think of inventory i also think of “how much is there? when will it end?” which is another way to try to prepare for death 18:25:27 From Adam Mazer : So my dad owned - still does own - a store, so i remember very clearly twice a year, he would come home and be like “ah this week is inventory” and it was always in such a negative tone and it was clearly so much less fun, just making a list of everything in the warehouse and the store, than the actual executive acts of running a business - so to me, i guess i think of “inventory” as a chore 18:25:41 From Jordan Baum : a continuation or gathering 18:26:06 From Raphi (he/they) : sorry to hear that, @mukta 18:26:09 From Raphi (he/they) : it’s so ingrained 18:27:11 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Sending an embrace to you, Mukta! 18:27:28 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Aww <3 it’s ok haha. Here we are! Taking stock! 18:27:41 From Jessica Goldschmidt : echoing the death sentiment. holding things, noting them, to know they’re there, to be able to let them go. 18:27:44 From Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) : funny - “taking” is so often a violent act 18:27:44 From Adam Mazer : doin’ chores 😁 18:28:09 From Sara Lyons she/they : @lila yes. 18:28:24 From Yehuda Hyman : Thank you for reading to us from your work, Katherine. It was very cool. 18:28:38 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : for me, with ADHD, where everything is always at the same volume, same color, my brain doesn’t discern or prioritize, CHOICE is freedom 18:31:46 From Angel : thank you Katherine 18:32:03 From jaclyn backhaus (she her) : thank you katherine 18:32:55 From Paul Hufker : thank you Katherine, thank you Agnes, thank you everyone! 18:32:57 From Mukta Phatak (she/her) : Thank you!!! 18:32:59 From walker caplan : thank you! 18:33:01 From Kate Benson : Thank you!!! 18:33:03 From Megan Hill (She/Her) : THANK YOU!!! 18:33:06 From Pinar : Thank you!!! 18:33:06 From Raphi (he/they) : thank u thank u thank uuuuuu 18:33:09 From Rebecca Kahn : thanks!!!! 18:33:09 From Sara Lyons she/they : thank you katherine and all you sweeties 18:33:09 From Sarah Tuft (she/her) : Thank you, Agnes !!