Imagination Boned
A Co-curator’s Reflection from the Cross Atlantic Creativity Congress, April 2022, Salzburg, Austria
Our Red Testimonies, Blue: 1. flung. we were a boat. untethered umbilical cords casting for a haul of ciphering ghosts. 2. when deep anchored in isolation, creatures can choose to lift. little green explosions through mountain sand. wrenching toward a fringe, we learn to make music. loud gravel tones. forbidden, we stitch tongues to infected dictionaries with burned skin. 3. seeking remedy in drug store chain aisles, between industrial metal shelves and the high-gloss space of an annie leibovitz photo, our memory hides in tiny threads from slipped seasons. we occupy space with mikhail baryshnikov’s feet and keith richards’ hands. love falling into gnarled and knotted biological braille. distorting smoke to stain that dark space between being and becoming, the hill of tara tugs us. flexing in our shiny city. 4. resuscitating skylight with skin we climb up inside the wound of our time. metabolically attuned to wind. did you hear the wind-steepled peoples? they whispered of a “lingering envy between the tangles of flesh and fallen stardust.” 5. muscle remembers courage work, the instinct to know the unknowable. it reaches into electricity pulling unreconciled imagination into bones. (cool wet seeds) wise in climbing mountains. future history senses a boat somewhere. take my spine. Apocryphal Revelatory in Bone: my belly remembers our way home.
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