![\"BACKGROUND\"](\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buttoncoals3.gif\" "\\"buttoncoals3\\"")
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n<\/div>
\n
<\/p>\n
Ice-boy<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n![\"superindex.html\"](\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spiderbkg.gif\" "\\"spiderbkg\\"")
<\/a>
\n
<\/div>\nSU: We started Spider Language at a residency at the Banff Centre where most of the ten collaborators, for varying times, came together. But truth be told, we didn’t get much of the site actually built. Plus Ahasiw never quite forgave me for making him go see Spice World (the Spice Girls film) with me.
Ice-boy
\nhe’s solid
\nhe chilled his juice
\nsoon as
\nhis brown skin
\nfilled in
\nto two hundred pounds of
\naccumulated
\nhungry days lost count of
\na dozen pets that went AWOL
\nloving women who
\ncondensed the beatings
\nand swallowed brutality
\nwith their morning coffee
\nlots of weekend uncles
\nand six thousand
\none hundred seventy four
\nand a half days
\nconfined to a city where
\nnatural born color
\ndefines your place
\nin the food chain<\/p>\n
Ice-boy
\nciphered it all out
\nand the sum came up
\nbig-time alienation
\npro-active intimidation
\npharmecutical recreation
\nand ONE
\nfuckin’ big Indian
\n[on the street]
\nwith an iceberg
\non his back<\/p>\n
\n
<\/a>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>
\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Emily_blur_02.jpg\" "\\"ice")
<\/p>\n
SU: We started Spider Language at a residency at the Banff Centre where most of the ten collaborators, for varying times, came together. But truth be told, we didn’t get much of the site actually built. Plus Ahasiw never quite forgave me for making him go see Spice World (the Spice Girls film) with me.
\nSo Ahasiw and I went on to abuse our respective jobs to complete the project. He got me a workshop at Neutral Ground which paid my way out so we were golden. I spent almost three weeks with him, staying at my mom’s and working what felt like 24\/7 on the project. It was incredibly intense, and emotional. Every pixel was discussed I assure you, and we even (twice) dreamt about the same solution to problems we were having. Then later I brought him to Calgary to do a panel for Em\/Media (thus covering his costs) so we could finish it.
\nSo here is a very belated thank you to Neutral Ground and Em\/Media for their welcome if unknown support of the project. Thanks!<\/h4>\n
<\/div>
<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}