This is media by E Chang-Gillespie

1. We are made of fruit laughter
memory war

2. This is media by E Chang-Gillespie

5. Since we have to travel around
the world, let’s start here

6. We came so far, so fast

7. But then at the time, you have to
understand, no one there, we
didnt know what was happening

8. I thought the police were tying
sand bags closed, then I realized
they were people

9. The soldiers were breaking
people’s arms and piling their
bodies in the back of a truck,
and who could survive that

10. If it is harder to begin dissent
than to end it, easier to vanish
people than commemorate them

11. On a brick in the bottom row, just
above the gravel, someone
stenciled English with white
paint: “At least we tried

12. This thing that I found, it’s the
only thing that matters right now,
the only thing that makes a
difference

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14. When was the last time you saw
you’d be all right

15. My recovery has not been easy,
but I had no choice other than to
try

16. There is escape, I know it, but
no one leaves

17. Spilt pills in the rug

18. He must show his scars: his
supporters demand it; his
adversaries will brand him
pompous if he doesnt

19. This description may provide a
counter-image to what you
imagined

20. Sometimes, in moments of worry
and distress

21. They lit up the ladderwell, and
climbing he clutched his piece,
squeezing off rounds, but felt
only the sense of trying very hard
not to die

22. Now two men, seen in split-
screen, recall their experiences
that day: the soldier and
translator speak almost
simultaneously

23. My job was to keep my eyes
open and point

24. I like to do the work efficiently
and cleanly

25. Bad timing and other
circumstances have meant some
of them got away

26. She enters the building,
examines the wall of their home,
peels surfaces with a knife and
tries to learn from the layers

27. If an artist digs like an
archeologist to uncover lost
emotion

28. One man remembers and
another man prays while she
pieces together the story from
evidence

29. The prophet expected God
would appear as an earthquake,
hurricane or great fire, but we
found her in a whisper

30. Located in the aftermath of
violence, forcing us to look
closely and to consider what it
takes to go on

31. I held her hand under the sheet,
so small, thinking, “I hope you
are happy at the end of today

32. Her mother said, “She lived
happily in this world for seven
years

33. I didnt feel separated; I felt very
close, even though we were
thousands of miles apart

34. Placeholder for a future scene in
which she does something
ordinary and it leads her in the
right direction

35. But you just got here

36. The public is not waiting

37. He found the slip of paper,
crossed it out and wrote: They
are dying on the ground without
knowing what killed them

38. Please try to make it easier for
people somehow, find a kindness

39. On a second slip he wrote:
Rainbows are nature’s hugs

40. But words will not help if they are
not used

41. I would like to find a man who
speaks from his heart

42. Enter a Clown, with a basket,
and two pigeons in it

43. Putting a paper crown on his
head

44. He lays his breast open: she
offers at it with his sword

45. Giving the crown, laying his hand
on his sword, tearing off his
clothes

46. Thunder. Third Apparition: a
Child crowned, with a tree in his
hand

47. The French leap over the walls in
their shirts

48. They place themselves in every
corner of the stage

49. Jupiter descends in thunder and
lightning, sitting upon an eagle,
he throws a thunderbolt. The
Apparitions fall on their knees

50. Exeunt all, except Clown

51. In this painting I have tried to
depict the most poetical or
remarkable stage directions from
Shakespeare’s plays, in simple,
linear order

52. While they sat each person
glanced in a different direction,
revealing a dynamic within the
family we recorded and probably
shouldnt have

53. Coming here,” he says, turning
right, “I put a stone on my heart,
and I carry it every day, that’s
how it feels to be without my
family

54. In the edit room she realizes her
film captures all the sadness

55. There’s been a great change in
you recently, hasnt there

56. The next time she calls, we’re
going to need you to pretend to
know who she is

57. Is this a story we tell children or
is it more complicated than that

58. No,” his father said, “slave
children were not allowed to go
to school,” and the boy bent his
arm like a scythe, to slice the
passing trees

59. There are three finger marks on
the brim of his hat where Abe
had tipped it hundreds of times

60. OK, jump ahead 70 years: let’s
review the things you dont want
to see

61. How so much suffering can have
so little sting

62. There is so much we had to
overcome, during the past few
years we stopped worrying

63. When silence conveys something
a word cannot

64. Their hands push toward the
wall, through the canvas.’” She
glanced up. “Because you know
the narrator, I dont need to say,
‘Their black

65. Several of us appeared just as
we are, but a little different

66. There is more and less story here
than a summary of the events
would indicate

67. Tell me everything then

68. Clash ends, bad plan, secret
weapon, worth to be proven,
vow given, stand made

69. One photograph is chosen to
represent each performance

70. It is free to check your items
here, but you may not get them
back

71. Unless montage creates new
story, too often it feels self-
indulgent, like the director’s
wish-fulfillment or a home movie
foisted on viewers

72. We remember everything, but the
nuances leave

73. He still can see her, though,
kneeling in the garden beside
mother, planting seeds or pulling
weeds, in spring, fall, which
house was that

74. Here,” he says, touching your
arm, “follow me. I want to
introduce you to her. She made
her first film, ‘Pepper,’ when she
was three

75. Isnt she lovely,’” he said. “Please
write that atop the cake

76. Everything all at once forever

77. And then something very typical
happened

78. When I see people here, it
doesnt matter who, sometimes I
think of you, a glimpse of you

79. As long as you read this, I have
the chance you will love me

80. I meant what I said when I said I
want to marry you

81. You couldnt marry me, not really,
not the way you thought

82. They imagine either too much or
not enough of the trouble that is
to come

83. We made no technical
arrangements, though, for
cameras, sound, lights and so on

84. Occasionally, I exert too much
control and have to destroy the
whole thing

85. My gut was telling me what I was
doing was just fine

86. If you want we can talk about
what happened after that, but we
wont make you do it, and I think
most people dont want to

87. The silence will hit people very
hard because they dont expect it

88. We are made of fruit laughter
memory war

89. Many people were born on this
day who are warm, likeable,
big-hearted; but today in 1968,
504 people were slaughtered in
Son My village

90. I forgot to say goodbye,” he
replied, holding his phone just
longer than

91. We must be honest enough to
show how wars are won

92. Ordinary people with little to gain
and everything to lose often lose
everything as they pay for the
ambitions of others

93. I wish we didnt scare so easily

94. The period of time between what
you hope for and what you have

95. Add mass, volume, weight,
scale, surface and texture; mix
well; bake for 35-40 minutes; let
stand for one hour to cool, and
voilà: Sculpture

96. She looked at the work, moved,
studied it, thought, “How can I
use this in a different way

97. How much remains to be done

98. There is a knowing-when-it’s-
enough time and then leaving it
alone

99. I hope I go to a similar place as
you, but see something just
different

100. As if landscape or architecture
were used as a character in the
story

101. Tree swings are a place for
children to dream and feel free

102. Please do not defeat this safety
feature

103. When people hurt you,” she
says, looking me right in the eye,
“I want to fight them

104. It’s not always easy to work in
such a way, but I find it
impossible to change

105. We need a little more faith in how
it’s done

106. Send me your PowerPoint deck
for Q1; I thought of the ideal
epigraph for your presentation
opener

107. We can make it, top to bottom

108. Even it makes no difference at
all

109. Our words and actions have
reached an incredibly broad
audience and exerted a powerful
influence on the world

110. This syndrome is marked by
over-management, obsession
with performance indicators,
audits, measurable outcomes
and targets

111. You are a regular contributor

112. If you want,” he says then,
offering me a tissue, “we could
discuss what happens next

113. Or you could just build it yourself

114. It’s important the diagram doesnt
just reproduce the existing world
but generates a new reality

115. Adapted from things she admired
as a student

116. Full of attachments and
associations to very particular
times and places

117. There is a connection between
this little made thing and your
body

118. But it also contains less tangible
things, such as rain, footprints,
shadows

119. Love letters of all kinds should
remain between lovers

120. Horses, birds, caterpillars,
pygmy marmosets, they know
when something is wrong

121. When I learned very beautiful
things die very fast

122. The next morning,” she smiles,
“do you remember those culms
of bamboo along the fence were
bent over, the branches and
leaves coated in ice

123. However, we always think the
world is getting better

124. Meaning arises from the
discrepancies between what
people say in different situations

125. Most of the time we dont notice
these things

126. I know snow falling through an
entire scene is practically
impossible,” he says, offering us
more, “but I feel it’s necessary in
this story

127. Please come with me to see the
movie tonight, outside

128. The timing has to be right and
depends on how well people are
responding

129. Together we are kind and
generous, affectionate, good

130. That’s what I see in those quiet
moments, when we’re together

131. And then I fell into the bigness of
you and found love

132. A handful of words in large type
fills the page

133. This year will play a big part in a
wonderful you

134. Back then it felt as big as the
universe; now it feels a little small

135. It was a simple house with a
keen sense of material, scale and
proportion

136. I know it because I built it

137. When we walked in, the air was
heavy with ginger and turmeric; I
miss that

138. Does every object here have a
story

139. Between being aware that
something is there and knowing
what it means

140. I’m a person, one whole person,”
she said, rinsing greens, “who
thinks about friendship and
neighborliness and love as much
as you

141. Everything tomorrow will be as it
is now, just a little different

142. But it is a fact of life, the way a
doorframe is the fact of a room

143. Where one hears gunshots and
there is the occasional murder

144. We’re not well yet from this
horrible thing that happened to
us

145. There is no specific message I
can put into words

146. Long takes, natural action,
people you dont recognize

147. I have to arrange details and
make sure everything is all right

148. When they’re grouped together,
the reason shifts slightly, like we
do when someone is standing
close beside us

149. Papers, letters, a few photos

150. In the box, his first review,
crinkled: “Springsteen aims for
moon and stars, hits moon and
stars,” rereading he pauses

151. Because of this I get a check

152. It seems bigger than it is and
more full of magic than such an
ordinary object has a right to be

153. Sometimes the right people
show up

154. On this day, much unlike the
others

155. It worked because we knew it
would and there was absolutely
no doubt in our minds

156. Then record a small break in the
story, like a cat wandering, a pot
boiling, the scene through a
doorway

157. He holds her by the hand, silent

158. Eighteen war veterans killed
themselves today

159. It’s a heavy kind of feeling,
knowing something is expected
of you, not knowing what

160. Dont be stingy, give us a big hug

161. I am still alive

164. We are made of fruit laughter
memory war

165. This is media by E Chang-Gillespie

166. © 2014 E Chang-Gillespie. All
rights reserved.

167. @EChangGillespie