From a project I’ve contemplated for a while now. The text is an obvious reference to naming as the first act of creation. The vegetation is to remind us that the 2nd defiance against god, for the Abrahamaists, was vegetarianism. The slug is the slow, but steady pace of the Conqueror Worm or Life as I like to call it. Plants on the page wraps all this symbolic activity into the fecundity of possible rebirth or the advent of choice. But the plants are dying as they’ve been plucked. And the page that carries thought comes on the boughs of dead trees.
Published by Pol Rosenthal
Pol Rosenthal has been working in Seattle's theater and music scenes for over 20 years. He used to publish a cultural arts journal then moved to Seattle to be in a rock band, TCHKUNG. This lead to him working with DK Pan's senses altering Butoh company, the P.A.N. In the late 90s he worked for sonic conspiracy company Muzak and while
walking out the door helped found radical street art/action group the Infernal Noise Brigade. There he befriended and became a member of multi-disciplinary effort The Degenerate Art Ensemble. Eventually, he
moved in next door to Seattle theater company Implied Violence (now St. Genet) and has enjoyed a multi-year, unhealthy relationship to
their demanding work and philosophies. Last year he was in Curtis Taylor's 'The White Days' as an "actor". Presently he's wrapped up dancing in Paige Barnes' modern dance piece 'Lead Bunny' (Oct 2012) and is working on Dayna Hanson's rock musical 'Gloria's Cause'. In October he collaborated with Real Change editor Rosette Royale on a wonderful installation, 'JungleBox', for City Arts Fest.
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