The Luminarium
The Luminarium explores attention, creativity, and ordinary life through poetic practice, artistic research, and hybrid mixed media art — including an ongoing inquiry into what it means to stay human and stay creative in the age of AI.
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How to Keep a Nature Journal (opens the original)
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come with me as I detail the way I keep a nature journal alongside my children, which feeds my creative practice and supports the curious exploration of my children. One of my favorite ways to collect ordinary magic in my life, is to keep a nature journal (which I do with my children).I’d like to tell you a little bit about this practice of ours, but I want to preface it by saying I think one of the easiest ways to make nature feel inaccessible is to imagine that you have to go somewhere to find
cosmic claustrophobia (opens the original)
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I’m folding piles of laundry, again. The same shirts I folded two days ago, the same pants, the same socks that never stay paired. Back into the same drawers where they’ll get pulled out, worn, dirtied, washed and handed back to me, ready to be folded all over again. Endless laundry. Repetitive mundane tasks to keep a body clothed. Something rises in my chest sometimes, frustration. A little restlessness. A kind of cosmic claustrophobia. I’ve been cracked open you know, and I feel the size of ex
Wait, that’s AI too? (opens the original)
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In one of my meandering scrolls, I came across a comment thread about Artificial Intelligence. Within the thread, people were lamenting that they wished they could just go back to the days of the internet before AI. They implied that if we could just go back 2 or 3 years, we’d be free of the interference of AI generated content and AI systems. Someone else responded with the insight that engagement algorithms (that utilize AI systems) have been shaping (and sometimes damaging) attention and disc
Writing at the Kitchen Table (opens the original)
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Instructions for a rainy day (opens the original)
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The cosmic and the particular are inseparable. Ravens and the pulse of creation. A mud puddle and grief that doesn't end. this altered interior terrain. a new landscape, a new country. born of blood and tears, molded by the constant refraction of living. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedwatch the window fog from the inside count the drops racing each other down the glass
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