“I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.” KindDreamBodyEyeRememberFacesNightGamesBlackVisionGlowingRecurringFireflyNight VisionRecurring Dreams Author:Ben Lerner
“When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.” FeelsMeanBodyOrderIndividualPerceptionStartingLimbsNarratorsOctopus Author:Ben Lerner
“In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.” WantArtBodyReadingIndividualProcessSkyBehaviorCaptureOfferingStableShiftingCoherenceCharacterizationSkylinesArt And Life Author:Ben Lerner
