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Having landed in Campania Felix, I begin to recover my life and work. Combined with support of my Italian ancestry, friends near and far, and my artistic research with Aesthetic Resonances involving Geological Empathy and Sublime Rheology; I shared an introduction to these ideas on air with Storytime Radio Canale Italia . My speaking goals are going to take awhile to reach, so I invite you to view...

Rose Petal Installation, 2024, Oslo, Norway. True story warning: if the anecdote of personal experience isn’t your favorite way of relating you will find your pupils at the back of your head here. If the strangeness of someone’s lived experience opens the possibility of discovering a detail, interests you, you’re in the right place. Either way, welcome to Le Lapin, share your thoughts, toss some c...

Think for yourself. Be careful around people who say you think too much. They may want to think for you. External advice can confuse your internal compass in a similar way magnets on either side of the compass can make the dial spin around. To recenter in stillness and go where you want to go, doing what you want to do: find out what matters most to you by thinking about your perfect day alone. Th...

As weathered skins grow paper thin the weight foreshadowed could only be for night To hide shocked currents of contrition Flowing from eyes drowned By deep wells bent into bones The sea waves salted command: lay loss, within the land And so the story Of rocks stilled by souls Grow to become faces Forming wind whispers By those, stranded From a birthright to love Too many attempt to feign Or resign...

The idea that art is an elitist activity is a commonplace attitude. I’m not sure which is more dangerous, the idea or the attitude. Attitudes seem to change with greater ease than ideas, so perhaps the construct of the idea can be the culprit to the follied results of making art for a special class. Of course, I can be easily dead-wrong, as I have been on the premise that anyone could make art. Ye...

If we cannot have peace in the world, perhaps love and beauty can save us. Remember evil is real. To deny or misname evil as human allows anyone to embody it. It allows the distortion of a lie to become animated by the hatred in the heart making blind eyes to beauty. Through the wetness of crying eyes, the lashes upon our lids become sand beaches aching for the warmth of sun in this persistent ecl...

What kind of reality do people want to live in? This question surely rests in an increasing number of minds. Relative to culture production, the advent of new systems permitting or butressing stews of cultural values calls a critique, or at least, an examination of how ideas and visions play out in reality. I should rather call this: Reality Therapy. Starting from the end, is usually where I like...

The Earth Sings to Us, a title by friend and curator, became When The Earth Sings to Us. The Artistic Research is at https://mariamman.net/aesthetic-resonances/ Here we gather, perched atop the world naming privilege as badge of honor for not we be heard but our ancestors appreciated for the courage to make risks to love and to endure betrayal and good meanings gone wrong we stand here, not only t...

There is a strange seductive quality worry has to it. Worry masquerades as care. Worry invents conclusions and outcomes that usually do not come to pass. And if those worries do arise in reality, an exponential worry complex emerges. Rebecca Solnit had described worry as an activity claiming to know something that one truly does not. In this bodied activity, done in the face of the unknown, worry...

The story behind the image: The original analogue film exposure is from Musée d'Orsay . The museum became my favorite in Paris. The image is a take on a historical image (you have probably seen before). Made in Spring 2023, during my Paris poetry residency through The Trélex Residency. This was my second Trélex residency , as the first one I completed at the foothills of the Jura mountains in Swit...

"Structure, in the making and demolition of form, when brought into light with the human relationship with environment makes outcomes of social relationships evident to me. The description of toxic masculinity can be ascribed to the absence of masculinity. The exhausting petulance of progressive ideology has an emotional labor that seems to justify the self-proclaimed and righteous feminist. There...

How to put this lightly? Dead butterflies not pictured. This was one of the editorial photographs printed on the cover of a Malibu newspaper of a fundraising event for a tragic death, that resulted in further-preventable tragedy. I feel terrible about making an image that looks so happy, because that was what I was hired to do. I get it: in a cost ratio assessment of life, we cannot sit around in...

Le Lapin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. So far I have yet to find any placebo or remedy for my cat allergy*. I adore them, and most of them seem to be fond toward me. Alas, my immune system doesn’t like cats, and not more than a day before my eyes are puffy, red, throat itchy, and body exhausted. Hearing the...

Le Lapin is a reader-supported publication. Become a contributing subscriber. In the perspective of geological time, the concept of personal becomes relegated to bones. In the imaginary realm, our life stories become echos. As Freud-freaks battle it out with Lacanian devotees, and the Jung hummers, the notion of self, in my experience and perspective of spirituality, can be ascribed as a notion of...

Spring has always been  the saddest season  full of big promises  and instability  knowing all will pass after summer anyway  The rain The sun The shine for Heaven-sakes make up your mind  Wind  You make me want to blow over all your pauses and gusts  whatever celestial becoming forces living beings to endure such impatient forces  soon to be scorched and released  the most intense beauty before t...

I promise to scream if I have to hear about another self indulgent alibi for polyamory I promise to scream if I have to to hear about another ignorant claim to people having no right to self defense but you see I have already not Screamed but exposed my crown to the icy cold fjord to keep a facade of calm to comfort those all around but I have to scream Because love should not be taboo and money n...

OH YEAH ….if you want to be a guest, or have a recorded discussion…let’s do that since I’m getting tired of the sound of my own voice: mariammanart@icloud.com The risk of sharing with whoever stumbles down the Le Lapin rabbit hole I ventured into or simply existing in this world has begun to feel more like the Netflix series: You. There have been more than a few encounters with someone’s like Joe,...

Poetry Prose &Suche will soon release as a published set with ISBN. All those who order copies will receive a lifetime paid version of Le Lapin. The heart is capable of so much more than the mind alone. Let us allow men to cry and our arms to drop, if only to lift open up to an embrace. May we be free of our conditioning and have the courage to a hearts open future. Even if it means to stand shaki...

Taboos become larger cultural palpitations. These manifest themselves in waves of group-think, which can sometimes result in the masses doing something retrospectively incorrect that seems like the right thing in the moment. That incorrectness is often disregarded in favor of turning a cheek. The path to redemption is indeed arduous and often seemingly fruitless. Acknowledging error and working to...

Along with free speech is the important aspect of allowing people to see things the way they do. That is to open up the mind instead of inform it, and box it, with a neat little label. This is one of the reasons I appreciate the visual and sensorial realm more than the often coined nature of text or commodity market sloganeering playing upon the way words can be read, interpreted and digested in s...

what shapes are written on the wall for how the body howls a man’s pains transferred to her in waves of pleasure settles as sediments of sorrow later a woman becomes a vessel for the war of life and a container that flows every moon red or grows a seed with warmth and care. * Mari Amman, Oslo, Norway 2023 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

One of the wonders of free speech is the possibility of knowing who or what you’re being faced with. The experience of a parrot-in-human-form becomes obvious when particular phrases are regurgitated by different people, as if the same psyche was inhabiting their body. One of the peculiar aspects of this encounter is how unique the speaker seems convinced they are. Such as in the Dunning-Kruger eff...

Perhaps there is one thing people can agree on today, anyone with a sane mind that is: destroying creates anguish. Finding acceptance of unacceptable behavior has been one of the tumultuous mental strains the notion of freedom has made my mind wrestle with. What would humanity be if they were allowed to do absolutely anything they want? Tribalistic? Canabalistic? Are they not doing these things, i...