drmstream[writing]

I spent a sum­mer com­par­ing a schematic like this that I’d found in an old dusty book to a partly-dismantled Wash­ing­ton & Hoe print­ing press that was in my mother’s stu­dio.  I was 16 years old.  Over the course of a month I tried dif­fer­ent pieces of cast iron against one and other.  Finally I […]

A Japan­ese poet once wrote that there is no util­ity in metaphor, that in the mod­ern world the only valu­able expres­sion is of words that are spe­cific to one thing. This is lan­guage as the table of exis­ten­tial ele­ments: when used pre­cisely, words make an objec­tive real­ity that we can use to breach the gaps between […]