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As I've often mentioned before, this blog is a sort of table of contents for my old Twitter threads. I include links to the threads, as well as quick descriptions of the threads.
From time to time, I like to do a quick blog post thinking over the time frame of the threads I've posted to this blog.
The threads I've recently posted are from February and early March of 2016. As you can see from the threads, I was getting more and more interested in politics. I'd attended my first caucus ever. I also started attending things like lobbying days. I, like so many others got heavily involved in politics throughout 2016.
You will also see some threads where I engage with the Brooklyn-based art collectives AltSpace and Art Baby Gallery, as well as the music zine/blog Alt Citizen.
This was a high point in my involvement with the Denver art scene. AltSpace had come to Denver as part of its Nowhere Now tour, where they would visit cities and have pop-up galleries for a night or two, before going on to the next city.
I had been getting more into Art Baby Gallery for a number of reasons (partly the work of Grace Miceli and Miza Coplin). So when I heard they were doing their tour of the Western United States, I wanted to see if I could help them at all in Denver. They had already found a space for a show for one night -- Rhinoceropolis. I found them spaces for two more shows: Rule Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
It felt pretty cool to help an art group I really admired. It was also cool to see what went into making something happen with an institution like MCA Denver. As you see, I'd also gotten involved over previous months staging poetry readings in solidarity with jailed Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh at RedLine Denver and the University of Denver. So I was learning how to make things like this happen.
But, it turns out, it seems to me on reflection like the Alt Citizen events, even though I'm still happy whenever I think of them, sort of led to me getting bad attention from certain people in Denver's art community. A lot of people in Denver's art community didn't like me, for a number of reasons. But following this event, things got pretty bad for me. This was a high point for me. But it also led to some pretty low points. And, eventually, I just stopped being a part of the Denver art scene. Too many people seemed not to want me around.
Alt Citizen also inspired me to use Instagram a lot more than I had in the past. For a little while, Instagram became my social media platform of choice. In a lot of ways, I don't think that was good. For some reason, Instagram just added some really toxic elements to my life. I'm still, even in 2019, trying to get a lot of that toxicity out of my life, as crazy as that may sound.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy all these entries. Thank you for reading!
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