- Autor:
- Selcan Peksan, Maja Daneková
- Wydawnictwo:
- Bored Wolves
- Język publikacji:
- angielski
- Rok wydania:
- 2024
- Typ okładki:
- miękka
- Liczba stron:
- 112 str
- Waga:
- 0,3 kg
- Wymiary:
- 120x170 mm
Slippage
One day we longed for the sun.
Sixty minutes into planetary lockdown, as gas clouds flare diabolically across the horizon, a burst pipe floods Selcan Peksan’s Istanbul apartment. Encircled by notebooks and companioned by her beloved German shepherd, the poet seeks to transcend claustrophobia and eco-anxiety by envisioning a future unpeopled planet supporting novel mutations of non-human life.
Come Lockdown Year Five, the subterranean rumbles of resurgent nature coalesce into a riotous carpet of overgrowth subsuming “virtually all signs of human civilization.” But as trees begin to uprise, gyrate, and parade, the poet, having outlined a deposition of the worst trespasses of industrialized society, feels comfortable at last:
This is my garden; this is my playground.
Pacing Slippage’s relentless plunge through ensuing eons, artist Maja Daneková generates atmospheres backdropping Peksan’s lyric excursion beyond the Anthropocene to the dawn of a neo-primeval.
