Attentive, hungry, humorous, grim yet buoying meditations on landscape and leftovers.
from @pauldruecke on IG
Written about in the NYTimes: https://nyti.ms/3Bu29uj
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America Pastime /
Recent posts to America Pastime @pauldruecke, working out the possibilities of the People Guide to Patterns and Resources.
Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 11 Kitchen Sync /
It's 5pm on Friday, 2020. We have our routines, plans for the future, calls to action, and hunger.
Elderly Magazine ~ End Capitalism Now /
America Pastime tucks nicely into the pages of Elderly Magazine’s End Capitalism Now, a lifetime’s worth of reading for progress.
Woodland Pattern's Prompts #7: Utopian Compromise /
Trashing is a utopian bounty of color and texture. Dusty salmon is my favorite color for rubbish, the perfect accent for earth-crusted, translucent plastic as well as all manner of practical utensils or decadent habits. It has been an honor and treat to contribute to Woodland Pattern’s series of Prompts. Woodland Pattern offers so much vital programming, brick and mortar and now virtual, it may be the closest we get to ideal.
Day 16, 4.16.20 Utopian Patterns #2
America Pastime Day 21, 4.22.20 /
Earth Day Alchemy: Public Relations
pages of a discarded book still have story
Trashing | Journal notes:
Sensitive displays of other people’s trash documented with an iPhone camera. The compositional ease of bringing together randomly distinct histories, baggie after baggie after baggie each with the lower right corner twisted off. Impossible storylines converge. Shiny inner foil of salty snack bags gently dulled by the elements. The implacable sense, and senselessness, of other people’s trash become pragmatic then precious. A Cheetos bag freshly torn by hands or wind. Bright, cheerful colors that enhance flavor embody a sense of self-determination.
Toward the end of Christopher Alexander’s Timeless Way of building, he writes, “. . . we assume that when we repair something, we are essentially trying to get it back to its original state. This kind of repair is patching, conservative, static. But in this new use of the word repair, we assume, instead, that every entity is changing constantly: and that at every moment we use the defects of the present state as the starting point for the definition of the new state.”
Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 10 Old School Vibrations /
Another quiet day, more or less, in quarantine kitchen. Penita is dishing up tough love. A little help from our friends. We hope you enjoy.
Speaking of help!!! We have a few aprons still available: Classic Blue, Season One with ChefD and Penita. We’d love to see you in one! Shout out to recent MK patron saint S M Somões who immediately checked to see if we had anything for purchase as pandemic purse strings were tightening. Thank you.
Surplus | Welcome Mats /
A few renderings for recent research into combing poetry and welcome mats. Street. Language.
Misremember As All /
Working on ways to put poetry in our path, which is a continuation of my work with public inscription. Gravity makes its presence known. from the titular poem:
it’s international bonsai day when we consider beauty and
control as two sides of the same coin
there is a provocative quote that i misremember as
all desire is aggression . . .
Top: Misremember As All (study) Reservoir Park, installation view. Coir welcome mat, shoe laces, permanent marker
Bottom: Misremember As All, Layton Gallery installation views, Coir welcome mat, shoe laces, permanent marker
Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 08 and other updates /
Shakespearean trivia for an Ep 08 Part 2 teaser. Also some recent press on our uniquely absurd blend of the three c’s. Finally, in the spirit of modest and underwhelming accomplishments we are beyond happy to have reached 100 subscribers on Youtube.