Projects
The Headlight Children
Collaborative Arts Collective/Circus/Extravaganza
Enjoy an early iteration of Headlight Children, featuring founding members Kama and Jampa, with Quentin as Ariel:
At Punch Projects 8/24/24
You can find my blank greeting cards, postcards, suncatchers, pinback buttons, magnets, and jewelry at Old Skool’s in Ellensburg, and Larson Gallery in Yakima.
In 1982 I made a super-8 film: A Lineman Is Better Than A Man Who Hands You A Line, which explored personal relationships by juxtaposing snippets of conversation with close-up imagery. The soundtrack for A Lineman morphed into an audio collection obsession, in which I collected over 2,340 hours of sound, interviews and conversations using a cassette tape recorder between1981-1995. I have recently been inspired by another archivist; so many options for these tapes—transcription; Mp3s; mapping histories.
A portion of my master’s thesis (written on the shamanic aspects of Patti Smith’s work) was published in an academic anthology in 2020. After reading this section, two of my close poetry friends (and fellow Patti fans) asked to read the entire paper, after which both of them said “This should be published!” Well…the first step on that road would be to actually type it up. At the time it was originally written I had to use someone else’s word processor and printer in order to get a formal final draft to my advisors.