REQUIEM:
LITHIUM BANK
Prison castle, Borovsk, Russia
2021
Soviet period chair from the 'Krasny Oktyabr' cloth factory, mattress fabric, rust, steel, pleated tubes, fragment of a car engine, construction adhesive, timer, human hair, looped sound 12'05"
everything breathes ashes of the past
no use in saying that the split lies as it should
should not
so much power is spent on thoughts
on physical suff
ering
as it is used to be
sailing from one bank to another
wishing to bring banks together, to composite
but
the forces of inhuman nature are present
persistent towards man's whims
so
what is left is to test the spiritual cultivation of oneself
to test limits of turbulent physique
what is left is to wear the boots out till the bones
bringing the banks together
as they used to stitch countries up with corpses
layered meat pie
with a prune and redberry confiture
who would kindly light a candle
who would worry about a shame
same mechanism
same system
terms differ
the smell of knees fermented by the waiting for a ferriage
another cycle
no
eternal loop
no rejuvenation
and was not
as well as candles
the shame contradicts the ashes
