Words have gone to sleep inside my head: the promise of a waterfront and the breath of distance
Lara Schoorl, 2023
Close Distance
Untethered to one place, language or format Close Distance, a poetics journal, exists in between and takes shape through connections. For its third edition, created while in residence at Maple St. Construct, Close Distance invited seven artists and writers to respond to the sentence, "Words have gone to sleep inside my head: the promise of a waterfront and the breath of distance", and to send their response to Maple St. Construct via postal mail. All sent in items are copied fifty times; regardless of their format an (interpreted) duplicate is made and placed inside a USPS box, the cover or vessel of the publication, culminating in an edition of fifty alongside an online presentation of all content. The original mailed artworks form the core of the exhibition at Maple St. Construct and are curated around a three-dimensional essay by Lara Schoorl. The exhibition and publication intends to weave the physicality of language and location together.
Artists in the show include: Elena Ailes, Benjamin Krusling, Aryana Minai, Maximus Oppenheimer, Mattea Perrotta, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro + Bitsy Knox, Albert Samreth, Selma Selman, and Hamza Walker.
Lara Schoorl, 2023
Close Distance
Untethered to one place, language or format Close Distance, a poetics journal, exists in between and takes shape through connections. For its third edition, created while in residence at Maple St. Construct, Close Distance invited seven artists and writers to respond to the sentence, "Words have gone to sleep inside my head: the promise of a waterfront and the breath of distance", and to send their response to Maple St. Construct via postal mail. All sent in items are copied fifty times; regardless of their format an (interpreted) duplicate is made and placed inside a USPS box, the cover or vessel of the publication, culminating in an edition of fifty alongside an online presentation of all content. The original mailed artworks form the core of the exhibition at Maple St. Construct and are curated around a three-dimensional essay by Lara Schoorl. The exhibition and publication intends to weave the physicality of language and location together.
Artists in the show include: Elena Ailes, Benjamin Krusling, Aryana Minai, Maximus Oppenheimer, Mattea Perrotta, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro + Bitsy Knox, Albert Samreth, Selma Selman, and Hamza Walker.
words have gone to sleep inside my head and yet my mind, distant, stays awake at night unable to let go of thoughts of my body I count the points of touch on my skin, locale of memory, but feel the absence of my husband lying next to me asleep in a different city and while the baby’s breaths are deep and steady my eyes sandy the whirring of words never stops and I do not know if it is the curse of being a writer, the curse of being a mother or the curse of being alive but as the light seeps in earth spinning away from its night at the edge of day I fall into a dream.
- Lara Schoorl
- Lara Schoorl
Road Trip From Los Angeles to Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Lara Schoorl
Videos from Little Italy:
Videos Courtesy of Lara Schoorl
Little Italy and Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Lara Schoorl
CHROMA / CHRONOS, a mini reading series:
08.26.2023
08.26.2023
Photos Courtesy of Lara Schoorl
About the Artist:
Lara Schoorl is a writer, editor, and translator. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she runs Close Distance, an online poetics publication of and about work in process.
www.laramacarena.com
Lara Schoorl is a writer, editor, and translator. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she runs Close Distance, an online poetics publication of and about work in process.
www.laramacarena.com