
Making Art in the Liminal
On Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, lost videos and making art in the liminal
Through the Eye of a Needle explores post-internet visual theory as it relates to the concepts of reality, time and 'the self,’ as experienced through (collective) memory. Written in experimental forms—part poem, part essay, part fiction.
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On Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, lost videos and making art in the liminal

Writing is a gesture of trust.

There’s a point in which a writer can feel simultaneously at peace with their direction, and consumed by the idea that it couldn’t possibly be any good.

This week I’ve been thinking about the fine line between experimentation and self-indulgence.

My dear atoms, it’s been a while.

Silence, photographs, 'Shifty', and false promises

‘When I recall, let’s say, my mother, am I having a new look at her, or do I see repeatedly a fixed image of her, forever the same? – Etel Adnan

I went to see my best friend perform.

I am sitting by the Thames; the arterial blood

There is a wound at the center.