Always
lost to memory ... is the point at which these disconnected fragments coalesce
... the moment when what these things add up to is something instinctively
recognisable as home.
The Reside Residency January - July 2016
Ecdysis published writings from the Reside Residency a bookwork of miscellaneous printed papers with digitally printed text
At
a first glance, not to disturb the ground I trod carefully, thinking the
creature might still be there. But on closer inspection the snake had
gone, eased itself out, neatly shed the skin, and moved on. Leaving behind this
translucent doppelganger, a ghostlike facsimile of every scale. For
millennia, this elegant undressing must have been repeated. Remembered in the
tracery of this discarded shell, imprinted in the geometric design of
interlocking filigree, duplicated in each cell of the intricate patina,
returned to and replayed, each time the same but different; the force of
nature's habit.
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