Water flows through bodies, species and materialities
Bodies left on the shores after the highest of tides
A cadaver becomes the diagram of its own condition
A fossilized ghost of a future past
They grow from within our haunted soil
Sprout and flourish
Until something very distant and remote
Feels up close and intimate
They inhabit our liminal spaces
Shores, rivers and disturbed forests
Continuing to remind us of our complex and unstable world
But also of the possibilities of life
As all matter ultimately returns to the earth.
Think about the materials that we put into the world
Our toxic chemicals and material waste
Gradually melts into the earth
The pregnant lizard sheds one tail and grows three
The blue heron submerged into the toxic river
Reappears with multiple heads
These are the things that will grow
In the haunted landscapes we have made.
Crushed plastics and synthetic liquids
Watery bodies eat them or are eaten by them
Animals and objects disappear into themselves
And are reborn vibrant beasts
The gods of the new world are born
They split, swell and rupture
Divide and multiply
Resurrection, rebirth, and regeneration
The hermit crab finds its new home within a synthetic shell,
A contemporary armor
And transforms into a celestial being
Object-Animal, species hybrids, a hope for life after death.
The future is symbiosis.
Entanglements across boundaries is essential for collaborative survival