A new space

The intention of Material Archive is twofold. After years of being informed by many well-crafted and informative cultural sites, I see this as a return, a giving back, my way to contribute to the wider digital community of cultural input/output. Literature (primarily in translation), art, film, music, collecting culture, theory, general bibliographic information are all interests of mine, and I have benefited greatly from the labors of passion so many content creators have shared.

Secondly, I intend to use this site as a record of my cultural consumption life. A notebook, a place to explore and expand in the essayistic sense. I am not professionally trained, have only published minor pieces sporadically (the great online journal Quarterly Conversation) and some art appeared in New American Paintings. This, hopefully, is to become a new portfolio in a sense, a place to develop and hold to personal account a deeper reading and seeing life.