In this installment of My Nakshi Kantha Shawl: Metacognitive Writing Strategies, author and Shamanic counselor Dr. Roksana Badruddoja documents another critical dimension of their writing practice: the sacred student-teacher relationship in the Shamanic tradition. Stay tuned for the third and final installment of this radical Field Notes entry in which…

For this special feature of our Field Notes series — where creative practitioners shine a light behind the curtain at their creative process — we are excited to introduce you to author and Shamanic counselor Dr. Roksana Badruddoja. In this first installment of their process essay My Nakshi Kantha Shawl…

“Our hope,” writes Raymond de Borja, “requires a solid, material base for its existence.” Fair enough. But where, you might be wondering, can I find such a solid, material base for hope? Do I build it myself? And if so, then how? Raymond’s ‘Action, Number, Silence, Work’ — of which…

This Field Notes entry (where creative practitioners document, by whatever means they see fit, their creative practice/process) is the ninth and penultimate installment of ‘Action, Number, Silence, Work’: a thought-provoking action essay by Filipino writer and artist Raymond de Borja. Culminating in a poem by George Oppen that was written…

In this special feature in our ongoing Field Notes series — where creators from all disciplines shine a light behind the curtain at their daily creative practice — we are excited to share with you the eighth installment of Raymond de Borja’s ‘Action, Number, Silence, Work’: an essay consisting of…

In this installment of his action essay “Action, Number, Silence, Work,” Filipino artist and writer Raymond de Borja revisits the thinking and writing of George Oppen, this time reflecting on the sustenance that poetry provides in the form of new questions, and the “great question” that Oppen’s poetry pursues: that…

In this sixth installment of ‘Action, Number, Silence, Work’, Filipino writer and artist Raymond de Borja considers how ideas (in this entry Alain Badiou’s concept of the “Unnameable,” and Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the “Whatever”) can be thought quite differently by different thinkers, on the one hand, but still have…

In Part 5 of this Field Notes special feature, Filipino artist and writer Raymond de Borja reflects on creative process, leisure, potentiality, and the way “a writing through of certain days presents a viable form for ethical experience.” This installment is part five of de Borja’s action essay, ‘Action, Number…

In this Field Notes special feature, Filipino writer and artist Raymond de Borja spends a day reflecting on Lyn Hejinian’s and Susan Howe’s LANGUAGE poetry, unearthing epiphanies about the area between the textual and the visual, the legible and the illegible, normative logic and dream logic, and what happens when…