“A Song for Many Movements” – 5″ x 7″ Matted Linocut Print

Gone away on a pinecone-picking, window-fixing, clothes-mending, tree-tending, mushroom-chopping, island-hopping, soil-building, plant-guilding, music-making, Grass Laking sabbatical. See you all on the other side and, as always, thank you for your continued support!

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“A Song for Many Movements” – 5″ x 7″ Matted Linocut Print

During my teaching days in Detroit Public Schools, my students and I were frequent filler-outters of Divya Victor’s Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself. This exercise, and this print too, are for those among us working toward challenging the tyranny of silence in our lives. Sometimes, our silence has much more to say than our tongues do. What can we glean from it? I don’t know many things for certain, but I do know that no matter what, what matters most to us must be spoken aloud.

This print, “A Song for Many Movements,” measures 5″ x 7″ matted. It has been hand-drawn, carved, printed, and colored onto smooth, handmade Kitakata paper using black light-fast vegetable-oil based ink. May it inspire you to transform your silence into language and your language into action, moment by moment, one word at a time.

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Title: “A Song for Many Movements”
Materials: Handmade Kitakata Paper, Ink
Dimensions: 5″ x 7″ matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, and hand-printed linocut

Fun Fact: Adapted by Divya Victor from Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, I present you with The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself. What could possibly be more fun than this?

What are the words you do not have yet? [ Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?]

What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary.]

“What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after.]

If we have been “socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition”, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?”*[So, answer this today. And every day.]