The struggles of negotiating one's identity with the only ones who can, where complications arise in realizing that they can't give you what you want nor what you need but precisely what you deserve. Part of this diasporic searching comes with it expectations of easy answers, of arriving in a homeland and meeting long-lost family at which a fractured identity becomes pieced together and a general sense of belonging is suddenly found. Freddie's impromptu but deliberate detour to Korea is…
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime 1968
comes a fractured mind lost in time, and so we experience the melancholy of memory; a fascination of the past that we can re-live when we want, except Claude is doomed to re-live it against his
ese brief glimpses we learn more about him, who Claude really is and why he attempted suicide. We see him re-living shadows of his past, everyday moments that belie a broken-down man. But there is an extraordinariness within the juxtaposition of the ordinary, the…
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Enys Men 2022
Recording history as the only sure-thing which anchors time collapsing in on itself through the collision of subjectivity, even if it's "No change" there becomes an annihilation through stagnancy if there is no one there to record. Perhaps that's why she volunteers as The Observer, to make sure there is an outcome whether it's good or bad instead of an indeterminate slurry of temporal confusion.
Lichen has appeared. Does it make a sound if there is no one around? Does history exist if there is no one to record? No change.
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
We can't help but feel like the worst person in the world. Not to our friends necessarily, or our families for that matter, or even to the one(s) we share a bed with, but to ourselves. Decisions we made that we can't really call 'self-destructive', that's not quite it, but destroys our lives anyways. Destroys what we've built the last few years of our lives, and with no idea of how we'll survive after. Why do we do this to…
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