On "here/there" pedagogical practice
My children’s abandoned playground slide lay recumbent in my overgrown Miami backyard. Her shapely form called to me like Homer’s sirens. She demanded that I turn her into a fountain-sculpture of a powerful sea goddess. I complied. I carved her uppermost layer, holes revealing light, I slow-danced with her as colored resin trickled down her length and dried. At first the carving was violent, the goddess-puta being split by my rotary saw and Dremel tool. The cleft repre
