When we speak we are afraid, our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive. (Lorde, 1978: 31-32)
Pity therefore the messengers who are marked and stigmatised for their unfortunate role rather than their message. (Sophocles, 441 BC/2013)
Image 1: Spelman Cups (2016) ceramic, mixed media. Photo: Bridget Harvey.
Technically there are five of you, but actually only four. Really you are three and one other. None of you are really broken, but all are damaged, bar one. Small, glazed, white, glossy. Three old, one new. Slip cast, tipped out of a plaster mould, handles moulded too, joined later.
Technically there are five of you, but actually only four. Really you are three and one other.
None of you are really broken, but all are damaged, bar one. Small, glazed, white, glossy.
Three old, one new. Slip cast, tipped out of a plaster mould, handles moulded too, joined later.
For L. & M. Desire is an exile, desire is a desert ...
For L. & M.
Desire is an exile, desire is a desert ...
Never an individual exile, never a personal desert, but a collective exile and a collective desert. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (1972: 452)
Never an individual exile, never a personal desert,
but a collective exile and a collective desert.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (1972: 452)