Gabriel Jesiolowski/ Feb 2016/ writing for In Search of Conjunctions

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TEXT by ​Darío Núñez Ameni

​where the crushed blue
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where the tripped up tongue

where the devil’s claw

where the lunar garland

where the synched up shadows

where the treeless buzz

where the word used wrongly 

where the copal depth

where the epitaph of sun

where the noise is debt

where the fault line

where the exhibition begins

where the eager perch

where the kindling fails

where the blade to cusp

where the stops short out

where the shirts tuck

where the earth tilts

where the first skin shakes off

where the shoulders 

where the post feminists fuck

where the frequent fissure

where the plane casts shadows

where the smoldering sound

where the field in question

where the house met with cracks

where the black scuffed floor

where the colony atrophies

where they call it business casual

where they value the aesthetic effect of interruption, but not the subversive quality

where they crowd in with longing

where they reach a point

where they synch up the shadows

where they bury the crooked wing

where they flash their teeth

where they offer “interpretive data”

where they make good measures

where they weren’t about to go

where they claim the path of least resistance 

where they call it good

where they leave their hooks

where they could offer no treatment

where they lost their disappointments 

where they cut out the middle

where they left

where you led us to the rooftop 

where your bobbed hair hit

where you lay it down

where you searched and found nothing

where you dress with half your heart

where you split the cells

where your profile looks aloof 

where you kiss the palm tree

where you locate the knitting sensation 

where you make repairs 

where you stand out poorly

where you are dogged and sinister 

where you intersect 

where you call on a nation

where you sleep in a cloud of balled up masking tape

where you escape to and from

where you remember the three of them

where you heard them as they drank more tea

where you number the ways

where you raged, begged, wept

where you dotted all the letters

where you gave a handful 

where you muzzle the light

where you left the rock you didn’t throw

where is the dusk marbling

where is the citation of looking

where is the jumping off point

where is a throaty sound

where is the least and worst

where is the heavy mask

where is the projection doubling 

where is what they refer to as ideal

where is the fidgety automaton

where is the locus flagging

where is the pocket triangulating 

where is the disease roaming

where is the sign of substance

where is the after all 

where is the platform shaking

where is the hand that meets the swallow

where is the breath that capsizes the edges

where is the mind’s well of doubt

where is the wound and key

where is the humbler word

where is the road looking​
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-G. Jesiolowski, 2016

Gabriel Jesiolowski is the 2015 winner of the Benjamin Saltman award from red Hen Press. His book, _As Burning Leaves_ is forthcoming in 2017.  They work in a research-based practice using installation, interventionist strategies, painting, performance, printed matter, and text to navigate the crossings of art, social processes and healing. Theories of embodiment, trans* subjectivities and poetics have been of enduring interest to Their practice. Over the past ten years he has taught art, writing and gender studies at the university level, curated traveling and pop-up exhibitions and has worked as a caregiver, wood finisher and designer. They collaborate with the NYC based design laboratory and architecture firm, Atelier DNA and are currently at work on developing programming for a queer residency and community resource center, The Institute for Emergent Ecologies. 
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They have taught and designed counterdisciplinary curriculum at Cornell University, Southern Maine Community College, Carlow College, and the University of Pittsburgh. His writing can be found in places such as DIAGRAM, the Sonora Review, Cream City Review, and So to Speak: A Feminist Review. His visual work has been shown in solo and group shows at venues such as: VODA, Dumbo Arts Center, Boxheart Gallery, Flux Factory, SPACES, and Future Tenants Gallery.