task 04 / 7

Start date:  October 1, 2024.

List of participants:
Alexis Almeida (New York City), Amir Akram (Baghdad), Roberto Balò (Prato), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (New York City), Elisa Biagini (Florence), Laura Boggia (Genoa), Marie Buck (New York City), Courtney Bush (New York City), Alessandra Capodacqua (Florence), Felipe Cussen (Santiago), Mónica de la Torre (New York City), Claire DeVoogd (New York City), Robert Fitterman (New York City), Ethan Fortuna (New York City), Sophia Le Fraga (LA), Kristen Gallagher (New York City), Sanja Grozdanic (New York City), Aurelia Guo (London), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin), Elijah Jackson (New York City), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Klaus Killisch (Berlin), Tyler Little (New York City), Matt Longabucco (New York City), Kristin Lucas (Austin), Monica McClure (New York City), Holly Melgard (New York City), Hella Mewis (Baghdad), Cole Modell (Pittsburgh), Yedda Morrison (San Francisco), Joseph Mosconi (Los Angeles), Michael Prado (Lima), Kim Rosenfield (New York City), Zaid Saad (Baghdad), Jeff Shapiro (Siena), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh),  Luke Stettner (Columbus), Sam Winston (London), Joey Yearous-Algozin (New York City)

Open
Ethan Fortuna

In the Random House unabridged dictionary, there are eighty-two entries under the word ‘open’ that could be set on separate lines, as in a poem. For me those entries are most beautiful. Robert Motherwell

RESPONSES

Courtney Bush

1. Rilke says animals can see into The Open. That people who die become it.  

2. My landlord wants to try to trim the tree from inside my bedroom by hanging his body out the open window with a set of shears even though I told him I tried to do the same thing and cut branches with kitchen scissors and found it to be very dangerous and a bee tried to fly into my apartment and so did a green bug and I only had the window open for about five minutes. 

3. FILM JOINED TO LAY OPEN THE LOGIC OF A PERSON’S THOUGHT, Tarkovsky said that, about something.

4. I saw Peter and Julia’s show Open Mic Night, which was truly beautiful. In the show, Julia said the first thing Peter ever said to her was, “I can’t wait to make you laugh but I can’t do it right now.”

5. My mom called the Mardi Gras store that is only open six months out of the year a multi-million dollar juggernaut. 

6. One of the little girls opens the bags of mango for the other little girls because she’s good at opening the tricky bags.

7. A24 needs to take a note from Saving Silverman for once and open a movie with Steve Zahn talking directly to camera, narrating footage of his mother going into labor.

8. Does anyone know why I bought this hard-boiled egg and gouda box from Starbucks and then why I opened it on an airplane?

9. Peter Falk in Opening Night. Someone who died and became it. 

10. Anyway, the landlord did come and trim the trees by hanging out my fifth-floor window that can only open one foot and I’m pretty sure he stole a book while he was here. (My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard) 

Cole Modell

Title : open sesame
Date: 10.05.25
Medium: type writer simulator 
Artist : Cole Modell 

Michael Prado

Ed Steck