It's going to be alright

It's Going to be Alright

33"x55"(or something)

Started at Vermont Studio Center

Completed at "Grandma's Basement Residency"

April 2013

In all that Noise I Almost Lost You

In All That Noise I Almost Lost You

Oil and graphite on canvas

(45x65"ish-I'm totally guessing)

(detail) 

painted at Vermont Studio Center, January 2013

The Essence of Separation

 I made this book as part of my Integrative Project (thesis-like thing) my senior year at UofM. I hadn't gotten around to documenting it properly until now. So here it is, for the first time in digital format, (mostly) uncut, with captions to illuminate the illegible.

The Essence of Separation

A Broad but Finite

Fantasy

(By Emerson Schreiner)

The Schizoid Experience

People Are Best Understood

When Faced with Threats from

Schizoid Individuals

Let me explain

The Garden

Became

Dust

Uncontrollable 

Rage

And "A Rat A Rat!"

But

They Didn't Speak.

This

Compulsive

Experience

Is

The Obsessive

Music of Life

The Hated Child

A Murder Done

Whose Blood

And Hate

Go Well Beyond

Devotion To

Terror

I Followed Her

She

Didn't Explain

She Didn't

Talk

I Remember That

The Day Everything

Broke

 I Remember

The Rain

And

All That They Gave Her

She Was

Like Frost

(was always like that)

He Watched Her He Watched

 Everything

Slip Through His Fingers

 He's Going

She Said,

"Just Wake Him Up"

I Shook My Head

no

no

no

no

God Knows

But 

So do you

Ha! Let me know if you can make any sense of it.

-em