repairing new homes, recognizing old cars
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The recent Response Event presented by the CAC and Chase Public
responding to the Passages exhibit by Do Ho Suh,
presented me the opportunity to reflect on and reconnect with
formative years of construction and building with my father…
Far surpassing the abilities of a handyman, my father was a problem solver.
Born to another family, or in another time, he would have been an engineer, astrophysicist or who knows what.
So he engineered a home, an upbringing, full of amazing discoveries for our family and any extended family that would visit, or had need …
old cars
statements
to some people they say things
to others they are mute
without meaning
or full of passengers willing
from a place
to a place
with a destination
and purpose clear
rehearsed and open
scribed and re-written
a journey of bolts and nuts
molecules meet modules
manuals provide care guide options:
literralis, oralis, or delegatus
some have been confused of it statements
does it say we are no longer pedestrian?
voyagers familial have practiced instead
do great distance, small step, ensemble
our old cars
were ours
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