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Glossary of Terms
 t h e  n o m e n c l a t u r e 

1.

Plink ®

synthetic color variation and propriety blend of nature's oldest pigment. Similar in hue to the tropical pink polypropylene applied to Christo and Jeanne Claude's Surrounded Islands.

Plink® is mixed + distributed by April Marten.

2.

Teeth 

gnashing instrument.

3.

Ideological White Giant

The total, socially absorbed canon holding up supremacist Western culture ordained by a sovereign, monotheistic figurehead, including: religious purity, the patriarchy and white supremacy.

4.

The Imaginary

all that can be imagined outside of fixed monolithic ideology.  That which is open to possibility and related to play, where one can experience providence untethered by intellectualism.  It is not the assured expectation of things hoped for.  

5.

Play-forming

Forming ideas and objects through play.

6.

The Other White Giant

The Art world that holds space for art practices and the residuals of such practices.  Particularly, the delineated space of the historical white cube. 

7.

Bubblegum Dust ®

a fine-powdered, pink substance derived from

Dubble Bubble® and other ingredients. The propriety blend possesses greater powers than church-sanctioned holy water.  Bubblegum

Dust® is manufactured by April Marten and blessed by Frances.

8.

Little April

the uninterrupted artist, before spiritual trauma. 

9.

April

the worker, doing all of the bidding for Little April and Frances.  

10.

Frances

the wise ancestor. She isn't a Saint.

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