How Beautiful to Lie Down – A cento
Uvia Smith-Wood

There’s a dream I have in which I love the world.
Fruit baskets full of vegetables, the light in the market,
The sky hot, so hot, always, and heating up hotter.
Ice cream scoops.
Let’s go to bed to get our dreams back.

Lines taken from:
Title) Rohrer, Mathew. “Poem for Friends.”
Line 1) Awkward-Rich, Cameron. “Meditations in an Emergency.”
Line 2) Otta, Tilsa. “[To Voice Something That Doesn’t End...].”
Line 3) Reece, Spencer. “The Prodigal Son.”
Line 4) Otta, Tilsa. “[To Voice Something That Doesn’t End...].”
Line 5) Otta, Tilsa. “The Hormone of Darkness.”

Mute 8” x 10” Gelatin Silver Print
Sydney Young
Artist Statement

My work combines past techniques of brúlage of burning film
negatives to alter the emulsion and warp the film. I played with ideas
of censorship using the figure’s vulnerability in an intimate space and
limiting the interaction with the viewer.
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