Jason Greendyk - Blog: 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

ALOUD, In Camera Lucida

http://interviewsaloud.com/2011/12/24/in-camera-lucida-a-poem-by-jason-greendyk/

By aloudblog / December 24, 2011 / Uncategorized / 2 Comments

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012! I look forward to more interviews, more fateful encounters and more unexpected turns. In the meantime, enjoy your break as I will and see you all in a couple of weeks. Concluding 2011, I leave you in the intricate hands of Jason GREENDYK and his poem In Camera Lucida.

The deepest arc

Free of care and light of heart

Binary allosensuality

As time fades on in bourrée pace

The differences blend

The opposition confesses its counterpoint

Counterfactual reticence

And we lean to measure

The meniscus of our innocent starts

Childhood the anacrusis of our epitaph

Yes in the ceremony of our innocence

Her presence was hanging like a chandelier

An open floor in a new house of the nomadic moment

Flickering candela

Nová, Novia

Nová vlna

She was there in spirit

The festival of light reiterated in memoriam

In camera lucida

The chambers of the intellect

On the guiding star of some deep and endless emotion

Some invisible constellation

Corazonamiento

Leads the dance in brief bursts of light

Of color

A turquoise stone

Enclosed in the walls of a troubled spirit

A tormented soul

A gruesome body politic

In a forced Viennese waltz

Absent of hesitations

Collapsing on the open floor

And rise and rise again

Charms scattering the shadows

An ontological intoxication

The digital mutilation of the musica poetica

Once an intellectual perfection

The violin concerto now a shrill and stuttering semblance

Of seas’ minor

Asymbolic psychology in asexual high

Resounding in the chaos of our steps

Somehow so light yet waited on

Changing partners on the floor

The opening of hearts

Cynical, apathetic

And all the more in love

Sweet nothings to the ears of a musing night

Swimming towards Venera on the clearing golden aura

Lucifer the morning star at the appearance of first light

Gave the name of inspiration to the goddess’

Angel falling latter

She drove a wealthy spear rich into thy heart

An aortic grove fording the many rivers of once ’fore

And the oaks of wisdom weeping happiness

Inmaculada conmemoración

Americano tragedy

Carried like another day

As after all and all

Love is mere a whisper woke

That may we proper cultivate

To grow and grow and grow

Into a neverending poem

La concepción de la vida nueva

A new house to paint the walls

December 11, 2011.

Jason Greendyk, www.jasongreendyk.com

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

ALOUD interviews Jason GREENDYK

http://interviewsaloud.com/2011/12/19/aloud-interviews-jason-greendyk-philosopher-poet-author-nyc/

By aloudblog / December 19, 2011 / art, Event, Literature, Uncategorized / 3 Comments

Concluding the NO!R series, ALOUD caught up with Jason GREENDYK, a Philosopher, Poet and Author based in the Big Apple. As long as he can remember, Jason was busy jotting down his thoughts, turning them into poetry. Two decades later, he’s still at it and the process so internalized that it feels completely natural. Busy with a full-time job, a passion for traveling, rollerblading and a tendency to dabble in a variety of mediums, every experience informs Jason’s writing, one way or the other, and, everyday, guides him on the most “epic journey” of all, the one happening in his mind.

ALOUD: Hi Jason, could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself?
JASON GREENDIK: I grew up in New Jersey. I went to college here and studied philosophy. As soon as I graduated from college, I picked up and moved to San Francisco. I stayed there for a year and really focused on developing my poetry. Then, I moved to Florida and stayed there for about 1 year and half. I traveled all over Europe and finally, I came back to Jersey City. There was a heavy feeling when I was coming back. Am I giving up this wandering soul? But when I realised that it wasn’t the case, it was rejuvenating. It has set up the basis for a much more conceptual journey. The journey in my mind everyday is epic!
ALOUD: Has writing always been your medium of choice?
JASON: I am primarily a poet although being in NYC, I have a lot of friends in many different creative fields so I work with them all but it always comes back to how it influences my writing and this journey I am on.
ALOUD: What have you been working on recently?
JASON: I have just concluded a blog project called “Tango de la Materia”, a passionate dark dance with materialism. The idea was that I didn’t want to know what it was going to be. No guiding Ark, no intention apart from what I was living on a day to day basis. It’s interesting, as it progresses, to follow the traces of your own reflective process and identify natural threads coming together. A little more than halfway through, although started in this chaos, it developed a very distinct structure. I could tell exactly where it was going to end.
ALOUD: Was blogging very different to writing a poetry book?
JASON: I have written 3 poetry books and the process is very different. I was still writing the poetry on a day to day level but I then had the opportunity to edit and compile the order of the poetry much after the fact. It was very reflected whereas, with the blog, it’s all happening in real time. It’s like seeing the end of the journey in every moment. “Tango de la Materia” is, however, now available in book format by private request, being my 4th publication.
ALOUD: The thing about blogs is that their structure is always chronological which is something you don’t have to follow when putting a book together.
JASON: I have a log of the day I post a poem to the blog as well as the day it was actually written which is not chronological at all. I might post a poem that was written a year ago. It’s a completely different perception of time which is going back and forth.
ALOUD: You are also an avid rollerblader. Is rollerblading the counterpoint to your writing?
JASON: A book I have published, “The Apple Juice”, was about my experience with rollerblading which was also a huge part of the traveling I have done. It’s a pretty stark counterpoint but it is also a very powerful source for understanding more ephemeral concepts and a deep social context, especially in a place like NYC. Rollerblading is very partially opposed to the materialistic ideology.
ALOUD: Would you like to talk about your performance for NO!R?
JASON: Rachel, who is also a poet, and I did a collaborative piece which was recorded and played throughout the show. The title of the show was “Ceremony of Innocence” and the artwork was images of children with a spiritual but also very political element to it. Our work depicted a mother and father speaking to their newborn, relating their perceptions of the world and what their hopes for their children are, voicing their souls and ideological ideas.
ALOUD: Do you think artists can feel a bond with their work that a parent might feel with a child?
JASON: People can almost treat their artwork in the way they might treat a child. Nurturing it, treating it with love and watching it grow. The fact that we can approach artwork in this sense of nurturing growth and then let it all go rather than cling to it.
ALOUD: What do you think might come next for you?
JASON: One project I am hoping to confront in the next couple of years is to approach the language of mathematics with a poetic style. And vice versa, I’m also interested in applying the flowing aspects of poetry to mathematics to bridge the gap between rationality and spirit.
ALOUD: You grew up with a pen in your hand, what would you tell yourself as you went from ‘writing’ to becoming a ‘writer’?
JASON: There was definitely a point when I became more explicit in my writing. If I were to go back to that moment, I would say, “dive in, go for it and go even further.”
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You can see more of Jason’s work on his website. Jason was recommended by Rachel Wilkie and was an artist in NO!R’s Ceremony of Innocence. Visit the NO!R website to see photos of the whole show.
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ALOUD interviews Christopher HASSETT – Artist – NYC. (interviewsaloud.com)
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Jason Greendyk, www.jasongreendyk.com

NO!R NEW YORK, Ceremony of Innocence

Jason Greendyk was an artist in NO!R NEW YORK's Ceremony of Innocence, December, 2011.

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CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE

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CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE
DECEMBER 2011

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Thank you to Jonas Åhlén for graphic design http://vimeo.com/jonasahlen

Thank you to Yanek Che for his photography
http://yanekche.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

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