Alabaster
My only word for you and one
derived from my imagination
Because I can’t tell you what alabaster is exactly
Without looking it up
I think it’s a rock
Semi precious perhaps but the kind people drive over
When they’re in a hurry
Or not paying attention
Or oftentimes, both
I get nervous when it starts getting colder
Even though I prefer winter
The hardest part
Of being alone
Is found in dusk at 5pm
In a city, a ruin
Void of alabaster
And all other colorfully named rocks
They are just rocks here
And maybe that’s why
I always come back.
Video by Richard Thomas, June 19, 2017
Poem by Kelley Brannon, October 17, 2017
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About kelleybrannonprojects
From 2012, new 'About' coming soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this nostalgia from my life five years ago:
I am an artist, writer, researcher, filmmaker, photographer, playwright, actor, and director in Ridgewood, Queens. I know that might seem like a lot of things to be so I should say I experiment in a variety of disciplines and mediums; concepts and absurdities. I studied in The Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. I moved to the area in June 2010 after graduating.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
Since moving to NYC I've been feeling pulled back to my first loves: writing and theater; and the surreal, emotional, and abstract. I am also very involved with radical politics and I'm particularly interested in blending internal and external structures. I wrote a semi-surreal one act play called "The Rootless: A Play About America" last year which divulged the madness of capitalism and was performed at The Producer's Club with Love Creek Productions. I recently wrote another one act play called "The Thousand Lives of a Nomad" which is a story about the task, escape, and intrigue of continually making new lives in different places. The story is told through the lens of a 33 year-old woman originally from Finland and now residing in Brooklyn. It's staged to be a "live animation" of sorts and, personally I think it's both funny and thoughtful.
On-going projects include a constant evolving series of smoke drawings, a documentary about the business behind social media and Facebook; hope of rekindling my love affair with large format photography, and a perpetual mid-life crisis...