As then she knows, she’s truly yours.
Jan Kempenaers, Spomenik, 2006 - 2009
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War called ‘Spomeniks’ were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer’s enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.
I Love Being LostI love being lost
in the sound that mud makes
when it is soft and wet and begs
your fingers to stay a little while longer
and please play some more in my earth
smell this beautiful terra firma consuming you
begging you to forsake the skillful architecture of
your hands
to make a more marvelous mess
and I love you saying look baby I have found
this branch of myself that I can use to dig
your sweet red clay to death and I say yes dig me baby
dig me as if planting love like crocuses
beneath the window of my hips.— Karen Garrison
I love this
I want you to fuck me philosophically
Not in the “oh well, might as well” sense
But the real sense
I want you to fuck me
with the passion of a red-faced man shouting
his philosophy from a box on the park corner
with the curiosity of a student, deft fingers
probe and disassemble, finding more questions
with the certainty of a demogogue, drowning me
in the confidence of arrogance and experience
with the lust of a reader, devouring me,
long awaited book, as if Robert Jordan hadn’t bored me then died
with the focus of a Verne, finding a hole in the world
And getting lost inside
I want you to fuck me with your mind, fuck me hard with whatever you can find, take me apart, fuck me down to my parts, deconstruct me with your cunt, deconfuckt me, and when you’re done
Tell me all the answers.
