Claire Spiers

Artist & Writer — One sentence at a time. To continue a project, which remains untitled but for the moment Fire-Works.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

https://t.co/mq4apaSKLX I have been thinking about this story a lot, how to tell it slant. I would like to argue, it’s already told slant. That it may - “accommodate that which was previously beyond its realm.” Chag Samaech

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

We live in a world where trees “talk” to each other & flowers can hear.
https://t.co/bHNkHwXkAR

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

Aroused by... simply pressing play.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

Aroused by... a strong female lead.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

The tzimtzum and the rabbinical myth of the diminution of the moon.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

A thick exquisite silence, where nothing is silent at all. It’s what you hear when your trapped in a garden and what you see before someone comes home with the keys to let you in. The whole symphony will be a parable about home. But that’s a story for another time.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

I was looking for a sound, after the first chapter - after aping an aeroplane - a sound that would usher in the third chapter where things get a little ropey. I settled on silence.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

I’m always looking for something exquisite - but that’s a story for another time (or a smaller part of a bigger story that I’m writing)

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

I’m looking for something exquisite.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

@awry_diamond Picture the scene in the film Shine when he is playing Rachmaninoff

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

Sitting before a keyboard to write poetry & it feels so attractive to imagine I am sitting before a piano. The comparison makes the act of making love to words (making words talk to each other in new ways) so much more compelling. To make them make music too.

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

The Long Opus. It burns in my brain and over time it has been changing colour. I never put it down on paper. That is the object for today. To write about silence (which could be seen as an oxymoron).

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

“According to Theweleit, the reasons they wanted to destroy these women were not just, or not simply political. The women were understood as a threatening “other”, and they embodied the mens’ fears, including female sexuality, and the fecund multiplicity of life itself.”

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

I’m curious about this link.
https://t.co/aYluU9l62G

[Claire Spiers @okshapeshifter]

I had a stay-cation. I painted a bookshelf green, cycled, went to the dentist, had a blood test. Listened to mixtapes, thought about poetry, wrote a few sentences, danced and wept. Cooked really beautiful food.
& this is the result of a poet re-organising their studio.