Mai-aot 2016

mai-août 2016

wc williams - reader in blue

wc williams - Trillian channeling Tura

from Moebius’s Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage)

Heather Lee Birdsong

Untitled (Polygons No. 9), 2016 gouache on hot-pressed paper, 10 ¼ x 14 1/8 inches

I remember collecting cicada shells from tree trunks around my grandmother’s house. My brother and cousins and I would pluck them from the rough bark and hang them on our clothes, on laundry drying on the line, or throw them at each other. I thought they were disgusting and beautiful, and fascinating because of this confusing dichotomy. Now, of course, they are also imbued with the warm glow of nostalgia. But nothing from my childhood exists without a shadow, a specter of things related and not, remembered and not.