Spring 2003, suburban Burlington Vermont
After leaving my rare blue 1979 Toyota pickup parked under a New Hampshire snowdrift for the winter, I returned from Norway to reclaim my things and tour around a little in the late spring of 2003.Β The self-done canopy job had leaked during the slow thaw and my bed was moldy and my books were wet.Β I threw the moldy mattress away in a mall dumpster and bought a lawn chair pad from a thrift store to sleep on for the next few months of choice truck homelessness.Β One of the first shows was in Burlington Vermont and I was hosted to sleep at a nice normal house in the suburbs.Β In the morning I took the opportunity to air out my things and my self in the sun.Β I propped my books against the garage door to maximize sun coverage.Β I wore the thinnest hospital scrubs.Β Sun bath.
The books, left to right, are: β’ My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir β’ (face down) Japanese phrase book β’ (beneath that) Tolstoy And His Wife by Tikhon Polner β’ Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman β’ DΕgenβs Manuals of Zen Meditation β’ Japanese kanji guide β’ The Myth of Freedom by ChΓΆgyam Trungpa β’ The Pathless Way, John Muir and American Wilderness by Michael P. Cohen β’ Japanese for Busy People β’ unknown β’ unknown β’ Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore β’ The Universe, an 1800s science encyclopedia β’ unknown β’ Macbeth by William Shakespeare β’ Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1901 edition) β’ (open on ground) Kodanshaβs Japanese/English dictionary β’ unknown β’ (on ground) unknown β’ Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
