Mea, Precious Angel: Provocations Toward a Modularity of the Abyss
book, 50 pages, cellulose, printed by the artist in edition of 50 in Berlin, DE, June 2024
scene 1. Erotic (digital edition, .pdf, 718kb)​
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​​Mea is an experiment in falling disguised as an attempt to fly. Drawing on the notion of the erotic articulated by Audre Lorde in her seminal 1978 speech Uses of the Erotic, the text dives into the ‘limic’ as a further, undefining emergence of deep erotism. Limic logic is a kind of attention to the lush, rampant space — the limit — flourishing between two whose individuation and identification are suspended, letting feeling take the full lead. In the narrative, identification and identity are understood in connection to their Latin root, idem, meaning 'sameness', standing in contrast to the unbridled diversity of experience. The text weaves together a tapestry of references from academic writings to poetry and literature, eventually linking the 'logic of the limit' to the concept of the alcove — a notion that traces back objectification to the intimate, ( I )ndividual realm of daily life. Mea's conclusion is unforgiving: that dimension whereby the unknown is casted into nothingness—the abyss, is modular, meaning, essentially a-semantic: it originates within a subjectual intimacy both antecedent and posterior, more profound than discoursive categories such as gender, race, religion or economic class.
The text experiments with the form of the “pasquinata tragica”, a public and provocative mode of institutional critique original of early medieval Rome.
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to kiss on a battlefield / act 1 / texts
book, 54 pages, alternate cellulose and transparent vellum, printed by the artist in single edition in Los Angeles, CA, USA, Summer 2023
full book (digital edition, .pdf, 20.9mb)​​​​
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​Exegesis of To Kiss on a Battlefield, Act 1, realized at CalArts in Spring 2023
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A CROSS POETICS [selected writings 2022-2023]
book, 44 pages, alternate cellulose and transparent vellum, originally assembled for CalArts MFA Open Studios, April 2023, printed by the artist in single edition in Los Angeles, CA, USA, Spring 2023
full book (digital edition, .pdf, 11.4mb)
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Untitled
poem, 37 pages, cellulose, originally exhibited in Untitled (2022), Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, printed in single edition by the artist in Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 2022