Ernesto Priego's blog. A personal repository of stuff.

Another one from the Lost Haiku series, in a hardcover black notebook (2019-2022).

Ernesto Priego

There is no thing as total stillness sound is movement then the wind there are clouds behind the sunshine I sit in a corner and count the pebbles the shade under a tree the leaves dance imperceptibly

Untitled

Eat Out to Help Out reversed social distancing guidance and contributed to a second Covid wave. Hate to say we told you so.

T

he UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up “to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”. At the time of typing this, you can catch up with the developments from the coverage here, or directly from the video recordings here, if you find the time. The evidence that has been presented at the Inquiry is hugely significant, but it is, sadly, nothing truly new.

UK Covid Inquiry: EOHO, Hate to Say We Told You So

The Lockdown Chronicles 32: Eglantyne

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I made this ‘card’ reusing a British Library Public Domain digitised image from 1868.

Season’s Greetings 1868 (2022 Remix)

Twelveth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #12

Fourth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #4

Fifth comic in an experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #5

Third comic in what now has become a new experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.

Mechanical Comics #3

Originally posted on Digital Cultures (AMM 421): Time has flown and today we have the final session(s) of our Digital Cultures modules. We have attempted to offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives that might help us to re-configure the digital media/digital culture landscape.


Week 5: Digital Societies?

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Paying Dividends (Eoho!)

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov’s former office at Harvard University’s Comparative Zoology department. (Photograph from Nancy Pick’s and Mark Sloan’s The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History).


Nabokov’s Cabinet

This term I will be leading the Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society (LAPIS) module at City University London.  The first session is tomorrow.


Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society (#LibPub)

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.

Web/Comics 2023 is the first in a new workshop series for the ACM Hypertext conference. The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4th September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. I am very happy to be able to share the program below.

Web/Comics: 1st International Workshop on Webcomics and/as Hypertext, 4 September, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome – Program

I shared two first drafts of a couple of alluvial charts I made visualising a dataset of the 25 highest scoring peer-reviewed articles with the term “Africa” in the title.


The Triple A: Africa, Access, Altmetrics

I am very happy to announce the publication of The Comics Grid’s latest special collection, out now in technicolour open access.


New Comics Grid Special Collection! ‘Rapid Responses: Comics in and of the Moment’

8. Los gallitos

35. El molcajete

An online event to launch The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine by Ernesto Priego. Panel discussion and a virtual toast!


The Lockdown Chronicles Released On Print; Book Launch (Online) on the 2nd of November 2021, 7PM GMT

New year. Starting from our own positions.


Switch It Off and On Again

I hcreated an infographic showing the three interventions adivsed by SAGE:  more people working from home, facemasks in crowded indoor spaces, and ventilation.


COVID-19 ‘Personal Responsibility’ Infographic: 3 is the Magic Number

“A credible and touching picture of lockdown life.”


A Day in Lockdown:  COVID-19 Response comic depicts a day in the life of a family with a child with a disability

Happy Easter Holidays… (You might need to zoom-in).


The Lockdown Chronicles: After-effects

You are invited to this City HCID Research Seminar on the UK Coronavirus Dashboard via Zoom.


HCID Research Seminar: UK Coronavirus Dashboard: From Concept to Reality by Pouria Hadjibagheri [February 17, 2021 11:00 AM GMT]

I

have now deposited on figshare my deck of slides from my presentation yesterday in Part B of the Lightning Talks on Day 1 of the LIS Bibliometrics 2021 conference (28 April 2021).

 Priego, Ernesto (2021): Using the Altmetric Explorer for Responsible Metrics as a Researcher, Author and Journal Editor. figshare. Presentation.

Slides from #LISBIB21 Lightning Talk: Using the Altmetric Explorer for Responsible Metrics as a Researcher, Author and Journal Editor [28 April 2021]

Presentaré en el seminario virtual “Las ciencias sociales y los entornos digitales” de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.


Webinar: El campo de estudios del cómic y la narrativa gráfica – 16-03-2021, 9AM CST/3PM GMT #ComicsStudies

CHI2021 extended abstract now deposited.


Now Deposited: SketCHI 4.0: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Remote Sketching in HCI

Call for Expressions of Interest: Editorial Positions at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Je Suis Bernie

Líneas compuestas en insomnio a modo de ahuyentar a los fantasmas.


Sueños de la Alhambra (sonsonete insomne de madrugada)

A new published poem by me in Visual verse, inspired by an image by Michael Easterling.


‘Definitions’,  in Visual Verse Vol. 8, Chapter 3 (January 2021)

100,000+ and counting. With apologies to W.H. Auden (1907–1973) and every Auden purist.


The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2- In Memoriam

Morrissey sobre México. De las páginas 450, 453-455. (Penguin Books 2013). Traducción de Ernesto Priego.


México en la Autobiografía de Morrissey

Maggie got her vaccine. Click on title to access.


The Post [?] Lockdown Chronicles: Maggie

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Ski Holiday Postcard

The Semi-Lockdown Chronicles: Postcard from Half Term

I have finally taken the time to locate and restore the files that composed my 2003 MA dissertation, and to make them into a single PDF that I have now self-archived open access on figshare.


For What It’s Worth: Self-archiving My 2003 MA Dissertation on Art Spiegelman’s Maus

Episode 2 in a series of auobiographical vinyl-only lockdown sessions.


20th Century Boy-  Episode 2 in an Autobiographical Vinyl-Only Lockdown Sessions series

Can we design new, safe interactions for the pandemic world?


The Pandemic as Opportunity: Designing ‘New Normal’ Human Interactions

At The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, the most frequent query I receive is about the time it takes to get a decision and get published. I share here my position on article processing times in the journal.


Modern Times: A Quick Note on Editorial and Peer Review Work in Accelerated Publish-or-Perish Academic Cultures

The Lockdown Chronicles 34: Susan

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
 



is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures.

The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)

O

nce more I feel inclined to write something about recovering time, focus and agency for ourselves. The very act of writing, and of writing something

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, is a key part of that need. Writing, not an email, not a text message, not work notes, not a post or comment on other social media, but taking the time to write, just because, as an attempt to make time and reconsider things.

The Practice of Writing for Self-Reflection and Agency

The Digital Humanities 2014 conference took place Monday 7 July 2014 – Saturday 12 July 2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland. I have shared on figshare an .XLS file containing a dataset of Tweets tagged with #dh2014 (case not sensitive).


An Incomplete #dh2014 Twitter Archive (Conference Days Only)

Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo’s El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.

T

oday is 2 de noviembre, and as such it is and always will be día de muertos

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. Often an excuse not to write more is having ‘big’ topics that will become too complex and for which I won’t have the time to discuss as they deserve. Thought I could keep trying to write about some of the items in my personal library. As always, I am not promising anything.

Haunted by Juan Rulfo: On Books as Inheritance and Sites for Remembrance

Where I  look at some of the creative ways people responded to and processed the impact of the pandemic on their lives.

Covid Stories
 

uses material from across The British Library’s collections to highlight a variety of perspectives and reflections on the pandemic in the UK. These are grouped into reflective articles, each featuring a number of accessible ‘collection items’ to promote thought and discussion on this momentous period in our shared history.

 Covid Stories

was funded by UKRI AHRC as part of the ‘NHS Voices of

Creative responses to the Covid-19 pandemic – my article for The British Library’s Covid Stories

L

ike every year I drafted an end-of-year newsletter round-up for The Comics Grid this year. 2022 was our 12th year and therefore our 12th volume. I’d like to personally thank everyone involved in the production of the Grid: without everyone’s participation nothing would have been possible. For personal preservation purposes I have copied and pasted below the text from the newsletter.

Closing 2022 at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

It came to me in a dream: a poem about poetry is not poetry the words we use are never ours it cannot rhyme, 'cause times have changed the flow is out of joint, as is our world no periods, no accents, except the one we speak with we write in tongues we were not born with it came to me in a dream I no longer remember only the voice of a friend asking where I was and we write like kittens licking a blank page on a typewriter our language sandpaper

It Came to Me In a Dream

Webcomics/hypertext scholars! There’s still time to submit. See you in Rome or online?

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4 or 5 September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. Remote participation can be considered. Participants are asked to submit a short lightning paper representing current work or original thinking in this area with the intention of encouraging interactive group discussion.

CFP: Web/Comics 2023- deadline extended to July 4; Workshop 4 September

29. El soplador

Recording of Professor Jonathan W. Gray’s 20 February 2023 talk at City, University of London.

J

onathan W. Gray, Associate Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College, talked on the representation of race and disability in comics at City, University of London, on Monday, 20th February 2023. We have now shared the video recording.

Recording: Social Depths: Representing Race &amp; Disability in Comics &amp; Graphic Novels – Jonathan W. Gray

3. La calavera

4. El brasero

1. El sombrero

Second poem in the Lotería series. In hay(na)ku form.


13. El yoyo

First poem in what hopefully will be a series. This one in hay(na)ku form.


7. La matraca

On Wednesday 27th October 2021, as part of International Open Access Week, I will participate in the OLH Editors Workshop within the panel “Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing”.


Discussing Inclusivity in Scholarly Publishing within the Open Library of Humanities Editors Workshop, Wednesday 27th October 2021, 2-5pm (UK time)

Webinar. Thursday May 27, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:30am Zoom (no registration required).


May Online Research Café: Using Arts-informed Research Approaches to Explore the Lived Experiences of Dementia

Thinking about this issue of the “pastness” of my record collection and the “presentness” of playback. Includes episode 1 of a series of autobiographical sessions.


20th Century Boy- Notes on Listening and Recording Vinyl Records as an Autobiographical Practice

The Lockdown Chronicles 40: Daniel

Announcing User’s Manual, a newsletter for new writing.


User’s Manual: A New Writing Project…

[This event was recorded and has been archived on the Embassy’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Embamexru/videos/158542686331722/ – no Facebook account required] This year’s Learning Disability Week will take place from 14 – 20 June 2021. The theme will be art and creativity.


#LearningDisabilityWeek 2021 Online Event: Chat on Covid-19 Response Comics at the Embassy of Mexico in the UK [15 June, 5-6 PM BST] #LDWeek2021 #LDArtWeek

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: One-Way Road

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Burnout

Freedom of Speech Trading Cards

The Lockdown Chronicles Year 2: Square One (but Much Worse)

To wrap-up the year and the decade…. Dunley, K., Priego, E. and Wilkins, P., 2020. Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come.


Wrapping up the 10th Volume of The Comics Grid! Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come

Este jueves 10 de diciembre de 2020 a las 02:00 p.m. (hora Colombia) | 07:00 p.m. (hora Londres) participaré en el III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos organizado por la Editorial Uniagustiniana, en el panel titulado “Ciencia en 280 caracteres: difusión científica y redes sociales”.


Online Panel: Research Dissemination and Social Media: III Encuentro de Investigadores, Editores y Bibliotecólogos, 10/12/2020 @UniagustOficial

Un no-poema pandémico

The Non-Lockdown Chronicles 3: Expecto Patronum!

Like London buses, two new journal articles appeared nearly at the same time today.


Two New Articles Published Today: ‘Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet’ and  ‘Uses of Comics by Mental Health and Social Care Library Users’

The Lockdown Chronicles 27: Ludwig

“Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Ageing Relatives” was published yesterday in ACM Interactions Magazine.


In ACM Interactions Magazine: Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing

The Lockdown Chronicles 7: Sarah

The Lockdown Chronicles 39: Bernard

The Lockdown Chronicles 24: Herman

The Lockdown Chronicles 18: Walt

Virginia said she would order the flowers herself.


The Lockdown Chronicles 14: Virginia

Pepys keeps count of the increasing fatalities, and the safety he feels being in the “City” relatively diminishes as the plague gets very close home.


“In a sickly time”: Reading Pepys in 2020

Juana is looking after her sick sisters.


The Lockdown Chronicles 9: Juana

Samuel is an extrovert. Staying at home is hard for him.


The Lockdown Chronicles 4: Samuel

Francisco de la Mora and I co-created a poster for a call by the World Health Organisation to use any creative medium to produce work that captures one of their coronavirus key messages. We submitted this poster under the “Viral Contagion” theme.


Physical Distancing: Everyone is Different; Let’s Be Kind

I woke up this morning thinking/T.S. Eliot had no clue


The Burial of the Dead

Announcing the release of a new output in the Parables of Care series:  I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care (2020).


Using narrative to convey the experience of dementia care-giving: I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care

The British Library and City, University of London will offer a fully-funded PhD studentship on ‘Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption.’


Digital Comics AHRC Collaborative PhD Opportunities with the British Library

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about  creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences


Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

Sharing the podcast in memoriam Manrico Montero.


Manrico Montero (1973-2018) In Memoriam

The advert for the UK Digital Comics information and publishing practices: from creation to consumption PhD studentship opportunity is now available.


PhD studentship-Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption

Here’s a listing of the articles we published during 2019, our 9th volume, by section.


This was 2019 in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (Vol. 9)

Today I will give a talk as part of the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design’s HCID Research Seminar series: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID.


HCID Research Seminar:  The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.


Openness, Transparency, Accountability: On New Ways of Being Scholarly

I will present at the HCID Open Day 2018 on Friday 4th May at City, University of London as part of the knowledge exchange and impact activities around the Parables of Care project.


Presenting at HCID Open Day 2018: On Comics and  Collaborative Art Practice as Human-Computer Interaction Methodology

Creating Comics, Creative Comics is a 2-day academic symposium. Friday June 1st &amp; Saturday June 2nd 2018.


Presenting at The First USW Cardiff: Comics Symposium- Creating Comics, Creative Comics

I was interviewed by the Open Library of Humanities for their Open Insights series today, part of their EmpowOA programme.


Open Insights Interview

En el pasado se te acababa el papel o la tinta.


Impasse

Dr Simon Grennan (University of Chester) will present at the HCID Research Seminar series at City, University of London (College Building, Room A214) tomorrow Friday 17 November at 1pm.


HCID Research Seminar: Making Parables of Care

Segunda entrada en esta serie. Espero no la última.


Última parada

Parables of Care, a comic that adapts dementia care stories from the Care’N’Share app, is out now.


Parables of Care: A Comic About Dementia Care, Available for Free

Dr Abi Roper is speech and language therapist and researcher passionate about technology use within atypical speech &amp; language populations. Recently Abi asked me some questions about working on Parables of Care.


Interviewed by Abi Roper re: Parables of Care

Repository Fringe is a gathering for repository managers and others interested in research data repositories and publication repositories. I collected an archive of #rfringe17, containing 1118 Tweet IDs. I then analysed the text of the tweets with Voyant Tools to identify most frequent terms and refined the results to 230 terms.


#rfringe17: Top 230 Terms in Tweetage

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. I made a quick mix with some of my favourite tunes.


The Strangest Secret: A Great 78s Mix

Everything is Connected

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with their feet buried,
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in the distance lookalikes
copy them with tripods and lenses
walking dogs, getting fit,
there are no waves.
Some tankers pass by slowly.
The men are standing
facing beyond, up straight,
cold and covered in scars left
by other living organisms.
This is all about the tide
and the wind, the expanse of land,
the vastness of the sky.
Here are the iron men,
ageing monuments rooted to
the landscape which is theirs,
ghostly like people,
but harder, alone amongst
all the others,
with chests and legs pierced
by painful solid pipes,
dreaming of one day
reaching faraway lands.
Instead they go farther, deeper,
without moving.
Eventually they drown.
The next morning they are still at it,
waiting for another day.
Until a sea of time
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What strikes us

is the stillness.

It's a common place:

"above us only sky."

The beach just keeps on going:

the sand shows the traces

of a kid who scribbled "Poo!"

inside playful speech balloons

again, and again, and again.

You have to stand there

to understand.

The men are stilll

with their feet buried,

they can't smell but

in the distance lookalikes

copy them with tripods and lenses

walking dogs, getting fit,

there are no waves.

Some tankers pass by slowly.

The men are standing

facing beyond, up straight,

cold and covered in scars left

by other living organisms.

This is all about the tide

and the wind, the expanse of land,

the vastness of the sky.

Here are the iron men,

ageing monuments rooted to

the landscape which is theirs,

ghostly like people,

but harder, alone amongst

all the others,

with chests and legs pierced

by painful solid pipes,

dreaming of one day

reaching faraway lands.

Instead they go farther, deeper,

without moving.

Eventually they drown.

The next morning they are still at it,

waiting for another day.

Until a sea of time

swallows them completely.

Another Place

&#8220;His devotion to jazz was primary,&#8221; she said, 
as she finished off a second glass of Bailey&#8217;s.
Someday my prince will come, she said, 
without scare quotes or inverted commas,
the drums of a certain Paul Motian, 
December 15th Nineteen Fifty Eight
not simply a beat- a subtle interplay 
like walking out of West Fourth Street
the ghost of the Iceman Cometh 
and Willa Sibert Cather on Washington Square
Unnecessary Noise Prohibited, reads the sign 
as you approach what used to be the jazz bar
&#8220;but he was too inward looking,&#8221; she said, 
as the sharp-angled attack of the piano 
and the straight-ahead drive of the bass 
(as the anonymous music critic penned)
another twelve months passed, peace piece, 
Monk, Coltrane, Nineteen-Feeeeefty-Seven maaaaan,
those were the years and the place, 
but Reeves died of a heart attack, in Tuxedo Park, 
and Evans, young and foolish, spectacled, 
lucky to be him, popularised the sound of quartz.

"His devotion to jazz was primary," she said,  
as she finished off a second glass of Bailey's.

Someday my prince will come, she said,  
without scare quotes or inverted commas,

the drums of a certain Paul Motian,  
December 15th Nineteen Fifty Eight

not simply a beat- a subtle interplay  
like walking out of West Fourth Street

the ghost of the Iceman Cometh  
and Willa Sibert Cather on Washington Square

Unnecessary Noise Prohibited, reads the sign  
as you approach what used to be the jazz bar

"but he was too inward looking," she said,  
as the sharp-angled attack of the piano

and the straight-ahead drive of the bass  
(as the anonymous music critic penned)

another twelve months passed, peace piece,  
Monk, Coltrane, Nineteen-Feeeeefty-Seven maaaaan,

those were the years and the place,  
but Reeves died of a heart attack, in Tuxedo Park,

and Evans, young and foolish, spectacled,  
lucky to be him, popularised the sound of quartz.


“Everybody Digs Bill Evans”, a new poem. Of sorts.


Everybody Digs Bill Evans

After Turner
View on the lake: 
a town at the foot of mountains surrounds the lake.
Brush drawing in grey wash and graphite. 
The fog changes with the heat
like the copy of a watercolour, 
(the original an unidentified piece)
like morning breath in winter 
or the resemblance of a simile
Como
not comparison but question
cómo
the lake between the peaks, 
a puddle of malty hops.
There is another, smaller, version 
up north next to a pretentious franchise bar
a distant echo from that evening 
in the Adelphi on the Strand.

*After Turner*

View on the lake:  
a town at the foot of mountains surrounds the lake.

Brush drawing in grey wash and graphite.  
The fog changes with the heat

like the copy of a watercolour,  
(the original an unidentified piece)

like morning breath in winter  
or the resemblance of a simile

Como

not comparison but question

cómo

the lake between the peaks,  
a puddle of malty hops.

There is another, smaller, version  
up north next to a pretentious franchise bar

a distant echo from that evening  
in the Adelphi on the Strand.


View on the lake: a town at the foot of mountains surround the lake.


Lake of Cómo

Están pintando una casa.
Le preguntan a los interesados, 
vecinos y habitantes:
“¿cómo y de qué color 
creen ustedes que la debería pintar?”
De muchos, sólo unos cuantos, 
contados, responden.
En este caso 
lo imaginan 
más bien 
nadie.
Pasa el tiempo. 
Después de mucho esfuerzo
en solitario 
terminan de pintar la casa.
Brilla bajo el sol.
Quienes les privaron de respuesta, 
se paran enfrente,
tan campantes 
mano en la cintura
y con toda autoridad les dicen:
“oye, mano, 
como que 
hubiera estado 
mejor el color azul ¿no?”.
“oye, amigo, 
te faltó un poquito 
en esta esquina.”

Están pintando una casa.

Le preguntan a los interesados,  
vecinos y habitantes:

"¿cómo y de qué color  
creen ustedes que la debería pintar?"

De muchos, sólo unos cuantos,  
contados, responden.

En este caso  
lo imaginan  
más bien  
nadie.

Pasa el tiempo.  
Después de mucho esfuerzo

en solitario  
terminan de pintar la casa.

Brilla bajo el sol.

Quienes les privaron de respuesta,  
se paran enfrente,

tan campantes  
mano en la cintura

y con toda autoridad les dicen:

"oye, *mano*,  
como que  
hubiera estado  
mejor el color azul ¿no?".

"oye, *amigo*,  
te faltó un poquito  
en esta esquina."


Mi casa su casa

Raskolnikov 
is dreaming 
someone else 
is dreaming 
with the sea.
Raskolnikov, Everyman 
needs a place to go to.
In a tin of biscuits 
of all places 
–the childhood of the magician–
a Japanese painting 
painted within 
another landscape.
In my dream 
the student is 
in Dublin
drinks coffee &amp; 
copiously jots down
the words of 
the master.
Raskolnikov killed the Ivanovas 
with a hidden pen.
Against the tide 
the young man 
walks in rags.
–It’s that sort of detail 
that always ruins everything.–
All this time, waiting.
Nocturnal, the sea: 
the eternal tomorrow.

Raskolnikov  
is dreaming  
someone else  
is dreaming  
with the sea.

Raskolnikov, Everyman  
needs a place to go to.

In a tin of biscuits  
of all places  
--the childhood of the magician--

a Japanese painting  
painted within  
another landscape.

In my dream  
the student is  
in Dublin

drinks coffee &  
copiously jots down

the words of  
the master.

Raskolnikov killed the Ivanovas  
with a hidden pen.

Against the tide  
the young man  
walks in rags.

--It's that sort of detail  
that always ruins everything.--

All this time, waiting.

Nocturnal, the sea:  
the eternal tomorrow.


Everything is Connected

Another Place

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Lake of Cómo

Mi casa su casa

Against the tide

The hidden treasures

Ebriedad y Cruda

Milky Way

Throwing Muses

Like Sugar