In 2017 Ralph Lemon gave me the task of writing about one small section of his 2010 work How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? In 2018 I started trying, working from memory, correspondence, and previous writings of mine, as well as this recording.

The text was published by [2nd floor projects] as a limited-edition chapbook on the occasion of the exhibition Seven Places of the Mind, fused space, San Francisco, 11 October 2018 to 23 January 2019.

The work was supported by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, housed within Florida State University’s School of Dance in Tallahassee, and by a Building Demand for the Arts Implementation grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to On the Boards theater in Seattle.