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Suzanne Mercury

Poet : Artist : Bee Whisperer : Dweller in Possibility
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Let's take a moment to admire some little dinosaurs

May 15, 2022

A family of robins have moved into one of my window boxes! I’ve been filming them daily as they grow….

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- Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Lou Salomé


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May 15, 2022
Let's take a moment to admire some little dinosaurs
May 15, 2022
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May 15, 2022
Remembering Walter de Maria
April 22, 2019
Remembering Walter de Maria
April 22, 2019

Walter de Maria died a few years back, and this post, from my old blog, was my moment of saying goodbye to an artist I loved. I am republishing it here because some things you just want to hold onto.

His life’s work is associated with minimal, conceptual, and land art and is profoundly exploratory: In addition to being a visual artist, he composed music (including Cricket Music, 1964, which was a recording of himself accompanying the sounds of crickets on the drums), produced films (Three Circles and Two Lines in the Desert and Hardcore, both in 1969), and was the drummer in the New York rock group with Lou Reed called  The Primitives, as well as an artist/musician in the collaborative group The Druds, which was a precursor to The Velvet Underground. It’s a lively and expansive oeuvre.

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April 22, 2019
Melonight, variation #1
March 15, 2018
Glass Poems: The Making of sassafracas
March 15, 2018
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March 15, 2018