Much of the portraiture on the site developed collaboratively. I had a wonderful experience shooting a few scenes for ssspread.com. I have also had the privilege of documenting certain models's own personal spaces for their own private enjoyment. This has included videotaping an entire chest surgery procedure from inside the operating room, or helping someone to make intimate images of himself.

I am always interested in collaborating in new performance projects. This has in the past included singing at an AIDS memorial, at religious occasions and simchas, vocals for film soundtrack, narration for CDROM, live dance-documentation, and documentation of theatre and performance.

If you would like to collaborate in such a way, or would like your surgery documented, or would like to model, please be in touch.

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We know only imagined ideal forms, and are located in striving toward them (Lacan). Bodies are an affect of signification, while sexual difference is a result of the symbolic, the order of language. Sefer ha-Bahir ^{1up> explains, all creation is descended from the birth of letters. Everything was/is created through a series of utterances. The origin of letters indicates that language need not be limiting; that distillation which is a pronoun doesn't have to be a compromise2up>. Even the gestures that make each letter are movements that continue. This is the excess of signification, that which has a name which cannot be pronounced, the beyond of language. Everything lives in the letter, even before it is legible; all the universe in a drop of water. In terms of inscription, since text is everything, and the body is text, then to make a mark is to inscribe onto text; a continual creation and re-creation. Text is a point of transcendence wherein inscription is both a mark and its own excess.}

I would like to speak to someone who speaks the same language, as a first language. I am making work as a walking locution, inviting the reader to see how my example indicates ultimately that there is still more to the text.

I am just one example of a reading. I am here, aleph to tav^{3up>, with XYX4up> and then some5up>.}

TW

twaxma @ artic.edu

1. Sefer ha-Bahir secs. 11a, 13, 18, 27, 48, and 54. Book Bahir, Neugroschel trans., pp. 53-65.
2. see the Haftara reading for fast days, what is given to the eunuch. Isaiah 55:10,11, 56:3,4,5,8. It means I have children already.
3. the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet
4. a gender variant chromosome
5. Bereishis 1:1 and 1:27