Catherine Czacki
get the house in order
November 14 - December 20, 2020
get the house in order included works by Catherine Czacki in ceramic, metal, papier mache, found objects, painting, eco resin, fabric, and collaborative sounds.
Big Buddy corner hummunculi
under beaded red vest blue flame
she/they/it in house
yanking threads
mischief of howling pots
moaning awake
seep out your soles
to another hot dawn on the edge
wack down weeds and walk
airstrip foggy groggy
flanked by wild sunflowers, prairie dogs,
snakes who eat kittens
neighbors welding all night
regenerating together with coffee
watching rain barrels barely fill
then grow it all in buckets
except devil’s claw
do a demonstration
green back in nostrils keep red cooled
dried up porch hot springs, peanuts, cow shit
a quarter for a flannel
sunspider hitching a ride
cacophony of birds
annual scarecrow sanctuary
ding some brass announcing nowhere as center
on plains where windy days stay
cracked celadon stool the old road god will fix
chord pull to another year of snow munching
Catherine Czacki is an artist, writer and musician living in Portales, New Mexico. She teaches studio art and art history at Eastern New Mexico University.
Czacki’s Creosote, a 310 page book blending poetry, sculpture documentation, and a found image archive edited by Adrienne Garbini, is available for sale through the gallery.
Audio was provided by Llano Estacado Monad Band, presented here is a continuous mix of the collective’s ‘best’ recordings 2018-2020. Llano Estacado Monad Band is an improvisers collective based in the greater Llano Estacado region of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico. LEMB works following the tradition of Scratch Orchestra, Nihilist Spasm Band, AACM, London Improvisers Orchestra, Daigoretsu & other similarly (sometimes) decentralized and autonomous ensembles. More information and an archive of every LEMB session and performance can be found at
www.llanoestacadomonadband.bandcamp.com
Photo credit: Paul Salveson
