WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES TO BE A POWERFUL CULTURE.
This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
abigail gore is part of my forever project, end of the valley -- specifically in the work 'warning: anodyre'. the seedy business of war stands its apparatus, steering her home, 'the shilohs' into becoming a nuclear test site. as the denizens are whittled from resources and her 9-5 can't keep the lights on, she hitches a ride with a customer: a quiet, cautered trucker who had abandoned her family to nurse her wounds.
this was just a quick project to get myself back into the groove of things, the text reads:
walking into new skin
say hello.
walk a new way
i trail in the wake of
myopic desires
driptray self somatic acolytes
all its wanting
catalysts outside me
can't i be anything else