Julia Goodman, artist
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

Randy, Randall Mann, and I met in 2007. A cornerstone in our friendship is an ongoing conversation about parallels between poetry and making paper - limitations, compression, malleability. We have been working circling around a collaboration since 2021.

Mann is the author of six collections of poetry, including Deal: New and Selected Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2023. He is also the author of a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry (Diode Editions, 2019). His writing has appeared in the Adroit Journal, Asian American Literary Review, Lit Hub, Poetry, and San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco.

“A New Syntax” is the final poem included in Mann’s Deal: New and Selected Poems. In this recording, Mann reads the poem aloud for the first time and shares its context. 

Audio accompanied by Rearrangements: A monument falls in the night, a silkscreen of the last four lines of “A New Syntax” on handmade paper. Pulp made from different color repurposed bedsheets and t-shirts. Collaborator Papermaker Amy Leners.

Additional recordings and silkscreen on watercolor forthcoming. 

REARRANGEMENTS: NOTHING IN STONE 
A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations, watercolors, silkscreens, and hand formed paper. I move and invert letters with liquid materials. Watercolor and pulped fabrics renders permanent language malleable. I borrow fonts from hard monuments and shift them to soft paper. Rearranging text attempts to override what is written in stone.

Recordings and silkscreens made with ongoing support from The Space Program. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. Silkscreens printed with Ben Venom.

Rearrangements: For Randy

Julia Goodman, artist
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

We are three mothers at different stages of parenting from three different cultures who share a love of the night sky.

This is a brief sample from the second installment of recorded conversations with Dr. Isabel Trecco Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan and myself. Dr. Hawkins is an astronomer, Senior Scientist, and Director of the Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium. Dr. Venkatesan is a cosmologist, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco, and an advocate of preserving dark skies and active in space policy.

Audio accompanied by watercolor on silkscreen Rearrangements: To be honored. To be remembered.

Additional installments and silkscreen on handmade paper forthcoming.

REARRANGEMENTS: NOTHING IN STONE

A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations, watercolors, silkscreens, and hand formed paper. I move and invert letters with liquid materials. Watercolor and pulped fabrics renders permanent language malleable. I borrow fonts from hard monuments and shift them to soft paper. Rearranging text attempts to override what is written in stone.

Recordings and silkscreens made with ongoing support from The Space Program. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. Silkscreens printed with Ben Venom. 

Sample of Dr. Venkatesan from Rearrangements: For Isabel and Aparna II (Tides)

Julia Goodman, artist 
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

We are three mothers at different stages of parenting from three different cultures who share a love of the night sky.

The second installment of recorded conversations with Dr. Isabel Trecco Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan and myself. Dr. Hawkins is an astronomer, Senior Scientist, and Director of the Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium. Dr. Venkatesan is a cosmologist, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco, and an advocate of preserving dark skies and active in space policy.

Additional installments forthcoming.

A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations and hand formed paper.

Recordings made with support from The Space Program SF. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney.

Conversation with Dr. Isabel Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan (Part 2)

Julia Goodman, artist 
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

We are three mothers at different stages of parenting from three different cultures who share a love of the night sky.

The first installment of recorded conversations with Dr. Isabel Trecco Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan and myself. Dr. Hawkins is an astronomer, Senior Scientist, and Director of the Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium. Dr. Venkatesan is a cosmologist, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco, and an advocate of preserving dark skies and active in space policy.

Additional installments forthcoming.

A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations and hand formed paper.

Recordings made with ongoing support from The Space Program SF. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. First installment edited with support from LABA Bay Area.

Conversation with Dr. Isabel Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan (Part 1)

Julia Goodman, artist 
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com




Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. 

Rearrangements: For Theo

Julia Goodman, artist
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

Ursula Le Guin delivered the commencement speech at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. There is no known existing recording. Elisabeth Le Guin agreed to read the speech 38 years later for this recording.

Elisabeth Le Guin is the eldest child of Charles Le Guin, a professor, writer, and master gardener, and departed Ursula K. Le Guin, a well-known writer of fantasy and science fiction. A musician, scholar, and writer, Elisabeth Le Guin was professor of Musicology at UCLA from 1997-2022, when she became Emerita. She is still involved with the School of Music as a colleague, mentor, facilitator, and informal student adviser. Her research explores the interfaces between written, spoken, and sung words.

Audio accompanied by silkscreen on watercolor, Rearrangements: There are new mountains.

Additional recordings and silkscreen on handmade paper forthcoming.

REARRANGEMENTS: NOTHING IN STONE

A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations, watercolors, silkscreens, and hand formed paper. I move and invert letters with liquid materials. Watercolor and pulped fabrics renders permanent language malleable. I borrow fonts from hard monuments and shift them to soft paper. Rearranging text attempts to override what is written in stone.

Recordings and silkscreens made with ongoing support from The Space Program. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. Silkscreens printed with Ben Venom.

Rearrangements: For Ursula with Elisabeth

Julia Goodman, artist
www.jagoodman.com
juliaannegoodman@gmail.com

We are three mothers at different stages of parenting from three different cultures who share a love of the night sky.

A sample from the first installment of recorded conversations with Dr. Isabel Trecco Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan and myself. Dr. Hawkins is an astronomer, Senior Scientist, and Director of the Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium. Dr. Venkatesan is a cosmologist, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco, and an advocate of preserving dark skies and active in space policy.

For the full conversation: https://soundcloud.com/juliaannegoodman/rearrangements-for-isabel-and-aparna-part-1

Additional installments forthcoming.

A new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations and hand formed paper.

Recordings made with ongoing support from The Space Program SF. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney. First installment edited with support from LABA Bay Area.

Rearrangements: For Theo

Julia Goodman

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