VOLUME 3

What is the role of autobiography in a satirical magazine?

This project began as a way of pursuing how the creative process experiences disruption.

Instead of the normal way of presenting the writings for this entry, they have been spliced and reformatted into a visual metaphor for the creative process and its eventual upheaval. The story follows a man, an internalized image of myself, paddling through a sea of thoughts and observations searching for something good that he can jar and preserve for later. The content of the word ocean is mainly structured diary writings, digestions of academic materials, and caffeinated babble. Some of it isn’t even mine, its song lyrics and movie quotes that I like.

What results is a dramatization of an emotional disruption and its conflict with creative production. Being able to express what I’m feeling doesn’t mean that I have any removal from it, or even that I have a responsible way of handling it. The satirical function of this is to illustrate the disconnect between hardship and coping.

Projects that I should mention as having significant influence on this entry are Glenn Gould’s The Latecomers and Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother.