lately a lot of what i want to create seems related to the idea of randomness or an unintentional wearing-down. amy and i were at a bar last night in sf and the light was pouring through these wood and glass doors and they were all beat up and the glass smudgy with years and years of greasy fingers but it was gorgeous. i keep finding myself wondering how to emulate the effect these chance doors and puddles and splatters have. i’m not sure how much i can. robert hass talks in one of his poems about things “lustered by the steady thoughtlessness of human use” and i think that’s where a lot of their beauty comes from, that thoughtless use. still going to try, though.
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