HI MAC:
WHATEVER YOU DO KNOW YOU ARE AN ARTIST
BEING AN ARTIST INS’T HARD
IT’S LIVING WITH YOUR CONCEPT THAT CAN BE.
TAKE ‘ A ‘ DEEP BREATH AND THEN LET WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING
OUT INTO THE WORLD AND LET IT DO ITS THING !
WE WILL BE WATCHING AND WISHING YOU WELL.
Originally shared by Mac Vogt
In about oh I dunno ten hours, I’m launching a project I’ve worked on for ten years.
I’ve been somewhat anxious about it, somewhat like my stomach straining on its leash. But I’m happy to report, this morning I woke with such a clean, bright feeling!
I’ve been thinking of what I wanted to say beforehand and how I could possibly say it. This project has always been difficult to describe, because it’s so many things all at once. It is:
A film and a chapbook.
A 3D scan of my soul.
A literary tab of acid.
A love story.
The softest sci-fi imaginable.
An evergreen world of terrible fracture.
Somehow both: in the oldest tradition, in the hyper avant-garde.
A prophecy.
The emergence of something like anima.
Poetry as technology.
The ultimate marijuana companion.
As Lisa Robertson describes in Nilling, uncannily, melancholy as perspectivialism.
An experiential theory of Reincarnation.
The hope I carry, that I can really be a real artist.
A warning.
A living thing.
This project has lived inside me as though in that archetypical sci-fi image: the astronaut standing before a glimmering, alien mass. And the mass is in flux. Everytime I read it, everytime I return to work, it’s different. The flux, weirdly, is me.
And what will happen once its released? I have no misconception — if it’s to be a success, it will be a long and slow build (as poetry always is (I secretly hope it goes viral immediately.)) But how will I change?
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||\ Mechanics of Reincarnation pt 1 launches tonight at 8 on YouTube