musée mia burrus

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                    palindromically
  A)I’M MIA            
                        née Anne-Marie
 
 
of less interest is the winding curriculum of my vita
 
than what I do now
 
-ant       in the ant world, I am still an accountant

-ist        the German for ‘is’ gets appended to so many identities
….I am quietly Buddhist and let the dharma inform my work
 
    -er        no hesitation!  just add it to photograph, garden, sew,
dream, read, wordhack
 
    -euse    en français je suis une bricoleuse, une type DIY
    …. in english I become a bricoleuse, making art and literature
from whatever is at hand
 
    -or      let’s just say I am a curator of my own museum
 
than where I am now
 
a museum is a seat for the muses, a monument to one’s
obsessions, a collection and collision of ideas and objects, an
exploration of the artistic, social, political, everyday (her)stories
that connect us, a chronicling of creative expression
 
my museum is virtual, but I live and work in a restored century old
one-room schoolhouse in the rolling 10,000 year old glacial
moraines of Northumberland County, Ontario, sheltered from
the winds by grandmother pines planted by long-ago school children,
on land first loved by the Anishinaabe