Aaron Lundstrom

From Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Sessions   "Art is a habit-forming drug, that’s all it is, for the collector, for the artist, for anybody connected with art. It has absolutely no existence... as veracity or truth of any kind. As a form of definition I’m delighted with this. I’m very convinced of it." " I’m afraid I’m an agnostic in art, so to speak. I don’t believe in it with all the trimmings, the mystic trimming and the reverence trimming and so forth. As a drug it’s very useful to many people. It’s a sedative drug." "I don’t believe in art. I believe in the artist." Photos Source: Wikimedia Commons

materials: van, studio apartment 

materials: mountain bike handlebars, brake mounts, section of cable housing, modified cassette hub, skewer, modified cassette wrench, braided fishing line

  materials: chess board, chess pieces, center circle, cooperative rules

  materials: bicycle chain

  materials: road handlebars, brake mounts and levers, bicycle seat

materials: two wheel cassettes, bicycle chain, requisite measurement parts

materials: threaded wheel hub, cog, section of tire tube, requisite lamp parts

A 2008 study shows how a single private death threat is all that is needed to be a predictor of eventual physical violence against the public. The study, entitled "Threats to kill: a follow-up study" (L.J. Warren, et al.), published in  Psychological Medicine , reports that within 10 years of the initial threat, 44.4% of death threateners eventually committed acts of physical violence against others, including homicide, attempted murder, assault, stalking, and rape. Furthermore, this physical violence wasn’t limited to the original threat victims. In fact, of the instances just noted, the original threat victims who became subsequent victims of the threatener totaled only 13.9%. The study therefore makes this simple conclusion: “threats to kill emerge as a harbinger of violence” – a harbinger of physical violence committed not just against the one initially threatened, but against anyone. An example of this is Highland Park, Illinois mass shooter Robert Crimo. On July 4, 2022...

Statistics, burnt foil and discarded syringes on city sidewalks convince civil authorities and passersby that drug addiction is a problem. Their viewpoint on how to handle the matter, however, swings into discord. The global organization Narcotics Anonymous (NA) promotes complete and ongoing abstinence as the way forward for someone addicted to drugs. However, even while holding that view, the NA makes a degree of allowance for those incorporating Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) or Opioid Replacement Therapy (ORT), otherwise known as drug replacement therapy, when using doctor-prescribed drugs such as methadone or buprenorphine. Regarding such usage, the NA’s publication NA Groups and Medication says: “It is helpful to remember that our Third Tradition clearly states that membership in NA is established when someone has a desire to stop using or when they choose to become a member, not when they are clean.” However, the same publication goes on to say that “because NA is a program ...

It isn't the line break or the simultaneous of your submission.  It isn't the deft of your dash or the clever of your comma  or the placement or displacement of your period.  It isn't the slush in any pile or the guidelines for your gambit. It’s everything you're not doing with your words. It’s life outside your process, beyond the thwack of your machines. It’s not on your favorite paper or in your tethered books. It’s everything they haven't told you because they haven't felt it for you. Or if they have, it’s everything no one knows about because they've hidden it in lines. Go be the spiral that gives. Go be the circle of cycle that isn't bound by what's not already free. Go speak outside the bleaching, and go listen outside the reading.  Touch the earth and then touch your face. Tackle someone’s absence and then give them your present facing. Stop writing what's already written, and stop reading what isn't right. This is not poetry. This is...