mugi takei

Mar 7, 2011

my ability to see ghosts

when I was a child the snake lady told me I had the eyes to see ghosts she said therefore I must be careful she said I must be afraid I never saw ghosts I never saw ghosts growing up I never saw ghosts until the baby came it’s not true I always saw ghosts everywhere just like any other things I just couldn’t tell them apart ghosts and other things I saw ghosts everywhere I was never lonely my breasts rounder my hair darker I was a young girl I had a lover the lover took me to the naked forest at night I was seeing ghosts everywhere they were walking, looking, saying something just like anyone else they were everywhere in the naked forest when the lover was kissing my breasts I didn’t close my eyes I didn’t want them to see me my closed eyes the lover and I went to the naked forest at night we made love ghosts everywhere I never closed my eyes the baby came in the spring the baby was born in blood I couldn’t tell it was my blood or the baby’s the baby was meowing so red like a kitten the nurse lady picked it up from the blood water the baby was like a chunk of flesh then I knew it was my blood I was seeing ghosts in the room and outside the windows they were everywhere the nurse lady passed the baby into my arms as holding the baby meowing louder and louder so red I began to see ghosts as ghosts apart from other things apart from so called living things ghosts were white bodies like lights there was blood everywhere

Mar 4, 2011

"i waited a long time for you" opened

my solo show "i waited a long time for you" opened yesterday at Cullom Gallery in Seattle. the show runs until 4/16, features over 100 drawings and stop-motion animation films. there will be a poetry reading evening on 3/24 at the gallery. thank you so much for coming to the opening.