DEATH BE KIND
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Zine also features writers Morgan Fayle, Ruth Learner and David Luker and artist Marina Lutz.
Thank you to all the participants who have trusted us with their precious possessions.
Thank you Lisa Young without whom this project would not be possible, and Huw Smith for his talent and hard work.
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A father experiments on his he does not hear me daughter by communicating with her in my eyes he sees himself solely through cameras and audio ,DPWUDXPDWL]HG UHFRUGLQJ GHYLFHV 7KLV LV WKH ÀUVW in a never–ending series, where the pitfalls of his parenting technique are examined, ridiculed and lamented.
OBITUARY HAIKU #2 OBITUARY LIMERICK The Marina Experiment began in 1997.
My father spent 16 years viewing me through a microscope. After he died, I went through KLVVWXIIDQGIRXQGER[HVIXOORIUHHO²WR²UHHODXGLRWDSHVXSHUÀOPVDQGRYHU photographs. They were all of me. I watched every movie, listened to every tape and looked DWHYHU\SKRWR,QXPEHUHGHDFKÀOPDQGORJJHGHYHU\VFHQH,OLVWHQHGWRHYHU\DXGLRWDSH and I typed out every word as a script. I looked at every photograph and divided them into FDWHJRULHV,ÀOHGHYHU\WKLQJE\\HDUWKHQE\FDWHJRU\WKHQEDFNLQWR\HDUV,FUHDWHG a logbook with chronological outlines of everything and all the transcripts of our taped conversations and lists of everything I could make a list of. I became obsessed with how to archive it, what to do with it, how to handle it. The vintage photographs throughout this site were all taken by my father and are part of this overwhelming heap of tempestuous baggage that compels me to search for answers.
Now I am chronicling his view of me through my own digital video microscope and you can I once had a father named Abe watch me watch my father watch me. who treated me like a hot babe he lecherously stared I remember hearing a story about a French tourist in America, hanging his head out a bus while he photographed me bare window. Another passenger noticed a truck about to pass the bus and yelled “Look out!” a kiss on the lips so my home felt like Abu Ghraib which caused the Frenchman to stick his head further out the window and get hit by the I lock the door to my room truck. This is probably an urban myth, but I like it because it illustrates something that feels is he really dead? OLNHLWDSSOLHVWRDOOWKLVZDWFKLQJDQGORRNLQJ,·YHEHHQWDONLQJDERXWEXW,·PQRWH[DFWO\ sure what that is. 7KH0DULQD([SHULPHQW$OO5LJKWV Reserved The Marina Experiment has been a one–woman show at The NY Fringe Festival called A Play with Myself. It was called Digging Marina when I was sorting through all the documentation like an archaeologist and dragging my reel to reel into therapy to try and make sense of it all. Then it became The Long DropDKDQJPDQ·VWHUP7KLVPHWKRGRIKDQJLQJLVGHVLJQHG to break the neck as opposed to plain old strangulation and is considered a way to make H[HFXWLRQVPRUHKXPDQH,GLGQ·WUHDOL]HLWZDVPRUHKXPDQHZKHQ,QDPHGWKHSURMHFW,W MXVWIHOWORQJOLNHLWZDVWDNLQJIRUHYHUIRUPHWRKDQJKLP7KHQLWPDQLIHVWHGLWVHOIDVMy Pleasure My Treasure. For a moment there I thought I was pleased that my father left me WKLVYDVWFROOHFWLRQRIDUWLIDFWVWRIXHOP\FUHDWLYLW\7KDWTXLFNO\IDGHG,SXWWKHSURMHFW DVLGHIRURYHUD\HDU$QGQRZLW·VEDFNWRLW·VRULJLQDOIRUPThe Marina Experiment.
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