Words as another kind of sound.

Essays, fragments, and the book Useful Nothingness.

Craig Haller — Writing

Featured work.

Useful Nothingness: A Working Theory of Being

Useful Nothingness: A Working Theory of Being gathers lyrical prose, essays, and dialogues that explore how meaning takes shape in the space between silence and speech.

It began as scattered pieces of writing that slowly found coherence and were reshaped into a single work. The book moves through questions of identity, art, and attention with the same patience found in the music, inviting the reader to slow down and consider what remains when form and certainty fall away.

In the end, it offers no answers, only a way of seeing the ordinary as something alive and unfinished.

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Other writing.

Short pieces, field notes, and reflections from the ongoing experiment.

Field Notes

Guernica, in Passing

A meditation on repeated visits to Picasso’s Guernica, and how art reveals more each time you choose not to look away.

The writing begins in fragments, something overheard, half remembered, or found. I follow it until it quiets down. What remains usually tells me what it was about.