Nice to Know

It is nice to know that there is an artist who embroiders onto x-rays and that there is a fuschia lighthouse and pizza telekinesis. It is nice to know that there are pillows that look like big rocks and edible doughnuts the size of peas. It is nice to know that most naked butts are both sumptuous and pretty in their own way and that someone has two matching Pippi Longstocking tattoos. It is nice to know that there is an artist making indoor clouds and another who makes igloos out of books. There is graffiti around the world that is most definitely art and giant discoveries like an abandoned ferris wheel in a field. It is nice to know that lace can look like skin and hair can be a kind of wing and a collection of stools can look like a clusters of grapes. It is nice to know that someone had a royal banquet in the woods and that Yoko Ono would like us to swim to an island in our dreams and that to her this is a kind of dancing. It is nice to know what a human heart looks like when all the muscle and fat has been removed. (It looks like a net.) It is nice to know there are structures of light and that some people carry light around with them in piles that look like layer cakes. It is nice to know there are tiny fictional landscapes with skateboarders and that there are real beaches with pink flowers one can recline upon instead of sand. It is nice to know that there are mohawks made from spoons and that there is a yearly penis festival in Japan. It is nice to know that the amount of exposures in photographs can be well beyond double and that long exposures of sex make sex look spirally and strange. It is nice to know that twin adults look interesting holding hands in a grocery store and that staples can look like skyscrapers. It is nice to see almost everything sped up or slowed down or made blurry on purpose. It is nice to see shape or color as a category and to see what fits in. It is all so nice. I do not much care for the made-up word, "Pinterest." I wish they had called it something else, but I did find and see so much there this past week and much of it fed and enticed me so and it is so enjoyable to scroll through all that I collected and marvel at it over and over when I might have been working on one of several unfinished writing projects or doing some cleaning. But my, what a window these little screens we have can be,what wide and extraordinary windows indeed.