Sal Randolph
@salrandolph.bsky.social
Artist & writer working between language & action. Art, attention, poetry, and Zen. My book is The Uses of Art. Co-founder of dispersed holdings, a publishing project. She/they.
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I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor.
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Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor.
salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
Ways of Seeing: Following the Brush
The Pillow Book as a form of attention
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November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor.
salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor.
salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
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just listen a little. / No one cares if you understand it who understands / why we're alive
Alice Notley
Alice Notley
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
just listen a little. / No one cares if you understand it who understands / why we're alive
Alice Notley
Alice Notley
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wild little Richard Serra drawing, no idea greg.org/archive/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
wild little Richard Serra drawing, no idea greg.org/archive/2025...
This week I want to hold in mind some work that I love, as inspiration and guide. I’m reposting a love letter to the precarious objects of Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña.
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Cecilia Vicuña's Precarios
Considering what it means to hold a work of art in memory
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This week I want to hold in mind some work that I love, as inspiration and guide. I’m reposting a love letter to the precarious objects of Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña.
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David Smith / Don Quixote, 1952
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
David Smith / Don Quixote, 1952
Some poems from my moment in the sun as Poet of the Week at Only Poems.
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Poet of the Week
Really? Yes, really!
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November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Some poems from my moment in the sun as Poet of the Week at Only Poems.
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I want to live in an apartment at the public library.
"Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartments—many of them affordable units—have been built in complexes that combine new housing with new libraries. These projects can both address a communities’ housing needs + improve local infrastructure by replacing aging library complexes..." (see also: Inwood)
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I want to live in an apartment at the public library.
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It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
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Some morning calm. #wellfleetharbor #capecod
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Some morning calm. #wellfleetharbor #capecod
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If you’re out of ideas, invent a place where you could find ideas. An orchard of regret where the fruit on the bough are unsent love letters. A grocery store where you can buy a better childhood. You do not have to begin with something; it is often more useful to begin with somewhere.
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you’re out of ideas, invent a place where you could find ideas. An orchard of regret where the fruit on the bough are unsent love letters. A grocery store where you can buy a better childhood. You do not have to begin with something; it is often more useful to begin with somewhere.
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Lately, my life has become an ocean of words—nothing but words, words, words to the vast horizon. This has me longing to just look, just see.
Just Seeing: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins repeating ocean surfaces
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November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Lately, my life has become an ocean of words—nothing but words, words, words to the vast horizon. This has me longing to just look, just see.
Last night I was with 1500 people singing out “People Have the Power” with Patti Smith on stage just as the polls closed and Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Peak New York.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Last night I was with 1500 people singing out “People Have the Power” with Patti Smith on stage just as the polls closed and Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Peak New York.
Go @teenvogue.com !
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
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November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Happy Halloween!
For your pleasure, a ghost story so short it barely has time to say boo!
For your pleasure, a ghost story so short it barely has time to say boo!
Ghost Story
Spooky fiction
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October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Happy Halloween!
For your pleasure, a ghost story so short it barely has time to say boo!
For your pleasure, a ghost story so short it barely has time to say boo!
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Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost 15th-century manuscript by the wine and women–loving Zen monk Ikkyū. The lively images testify to their maker’s sardonic sense of humor: skeletons dancing, drumming, drinking sake, having sex...
Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)
Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by a wine and women–loving Zen monk.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost 15th-century manuscript by the wine and women–loving Zen monk Ikkyū. The lively images testify to their maker’s sardonic sense of humor: skeletons dancing, drumming, drinking sake, having sex...
A tale for these days when we enjoy being spooked by what haunts us.
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Ghost Story
Spooky fiction
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October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A tale for these days when we enjoy being spooked by what haunts us.
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Modern capitalism is not as different to slavery as we think.
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Modern capitalism is not as different to slavery as we think.
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
Something you can bring with you the next time you go to a museum.
Ways of Seeing: Seasonal Feeling
Autumn is taking hold
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October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Something you can bring with you the next time you go to a museum.