ooples and boonoonoos

i've been enfeebled by a flu - no thoughts of my own on voice or on much.

but i have a library book on paradox i'm supposed to be starting, when well (e.t.a tomorrow)

will report back for the conversation -

in the meanwhile, this alice notley part struck me as abt voice as the association of quirk/surface with innards/behavior.

"I touch the purple petals
She says Hey!

The flower says, we are purple
together
they touch purple it keeps purple
purple means us, here.
The air moved a person. I like people
because they're as serious
as I am. Being purple is very serious.
It's dense and still.
It's a matter of fact
but light seems it.
I seem the light
makes me feel purple.
A petal is crumpling I've done
before
I sleep in the bulb.

Being purple is long.

Crumpling is not as serious
as being purple

(I may disagree.)

I'm not not serious not smiling.
I'm smiling
as crumpling
only a little now.
I'm mostly staying seriously purple now."

here's jessica stockholder on surface (talking abt paint on her objects in her installations:

"...the painting also draws attention to surface - to skins over objects and skins of objects. The surface is simultaneously rested on and poked into. It is treated as a flat weightless, almost abstract or not physical area; at the same time it is an extension of an object and is treated as such. The paint functions both to alter existing surfaces and as a very flat object in its own right placed over or along side other objects. The surface of the object conceals the mass of the object from us; it is also the part of the object revealed to our sight, it is an area where we are vulnerable to deception and also a site poignantly ripe for the development of fiction. The surface becomes a tenuous site where fiction and reality struggle with notions of subjectivity and objectivity to find boundaries or to determine difference."

to me this has become about voice - maybe not anymore tomorrow, when i will be willing myself to no longer have the flu....