by warsan shire
i don't know when love became elusive
what i know, is that no one i know has it
my fathers arms around my mothers neck
fruit too ripe to eat, a door half way open
when your name is a just a hand i can never hold
everything i have ever believed in, becomes magic.
i think of lovers as trees, growing to and
from one another searching for the same light,
my mothers laughter in a dark room,
a photograph greying under my touch,
this is all i know how to do, carry loss around until
i begin to resemble every bad memory,
every terrible fear,
every nightmare anyone has ever had.
i ask did you ever love me?
you say of course, of course so quickly
that you sound like someone else
i ask are you made of steel? are you made of iron?
you cry on the phone, my stomach hurts
i let you leave, i need someone who knows how to stay.
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every time i scratch myself i leave
long red systematic marks along my agony
i wonder if i leave the same
agony
on the people i speak to
last saturday charlene, marie and i went to see our friends launch their new label at parco next
then we went to an art show next door, which was the 49th modern art society exhibit
later at night i went to see
'berimbau electrico' (i think)
this crazy brazilian band, at homeclub
the weekend is here once again
i got a day off from work so i ran
overdue errands
paid library fines
posted letters to london and melbourne
had really good coffee
went to see my dentist
got tickets to a sophie calle film tonight
'no sex last night' / 'double blind'
at the arts museum, excited for that
read about it here
This unconventional road movie was French artist Sophie Calle’s first video project, created in collaboration with her then-partner Greg Shepard.
Driving across America in a wheezing convertible, the two record and narrate their journey and insights with separate video cameras, producing
different versions of their relationship. As they travel west from New York, they encounter various situations and characters including a visit to Bruce
Nauman’s New Mexico ranch. Dominated by their respective monologues, the film attempts to navigate questions about the self, the other, desire,
and sexuality. The viewer is challenged to reconsider the meanings behind the roles and subjectivities created by gender and cultural expectations.
Sophie Calle (b. 1953) is a conceptual and installation artist, photographer, writer, educator and director. Her works often utilise intimate aspects of her
personal life and examine states of human vulnerability. They frequently focus on the relationships between the artist/observer and the objects of her
investigation. Working across mediums ranging from photography and film to performance and printed or textual matter, she seeks to redefine
through personal investigations the conditions and parameters of the distinctions between subject and object, the public and private, voyeurism and
display, truth and fiction, intimacy and absence. Her work has been shown extensively, including retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou (2003) and
the Whitechapel Gallery (2009). In 2007 she represented France at the Venice Biennale.
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