ABOUTNESS
Work-in-progress, 2023-
ABOUTNESS: A method of making (as writing, as art) that embraces the multiplicity of meaning.
That makes prevalent through form that everything means everything.
ABOUTNESS is a hybrid memoir that begins with a meditation on ABOUTNESS and unravels into a manifesto of mess and excess. The manuscript includes poetic narrative, surreal microessays, and a dialectic exchange throughout by characters Ness and Mess. Experimenting with form and excess, the writer weaves together threads to imagine possible artistic ecosystems, according to urgencies of the contemporary world.
(A book that unravels ABOUTNESS to ABOUT MESS
book that extends beyond material object to performance
book in the expanded field)