Episode 19: Notes on the Assemblage

Connor and Jack discuss Juan Felipe Herrera's "Notes on the Assemblage."

To read the poem, go here. For more on Herrera, follow this link. To check out his collection Notes on the Assemblage, go here.

Notes on the Assemblage
By: Juan Felipe Herrera

Use black & gray & speckled white construction paper
use stripped scraped & perforated construction paper
use found paper
use cardboard /stripped / wet & 
mashed
overlay on old encyclopedias / sheets with images 
something like Kentridge or Delmore Schwartz
use soap to brush them
draw with pencil & marker
draw the soap & noodles some stones
draw with pencil and marker for outline
11 x 14 page sheet
draw the muddy camp the bus the pier 
the toilet line
close-ups too 
   —how we look
at each other
what we have on our faces
        you can cross thought through it
you can escape into it and out
through its holes its gases
our faces
have changed
can we go back
you can’t wash it off
but you can erase it