Check back for additional listings. Opening at Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, of work by Nancy Azara, including a sculpted book with poems by Judith Barrington. All day memoir writing workshop at A Clean Well Lighted Place bookstore in San Francisco. We simulate disaster, first with models then with computers that make buildings burn and crash, bodies fly through air, cars leap up and fall on their heads, blazing. We create severed legs and heads sheared from bodies.
Ketchup is blood and blood becomes ketchup.
Until one day we see it is blood. Life blood pouring from blue veins. We do not simulate grief. Long, long grief, or psyches that leap into air, severed from hearts. Actors lie down for the rape scene while someone, somewhere, composes a suitable rape score.