connect
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