{ island of wastedness } In between buildings, there are pieces of land, and on them used to be apartments. In only thirty years, the houses are in ruination. There are…
{ diffraction } Enter the void. We belong to bodies eating the sun. Melting, thaws, mining my inner Mercury. Grasping the light, blinded by the rays, you become the sun in…
{ of(f) focus } Off focus translates to “out-of-focus”, when you cannot see the image clearly or when a camera, telescope, or other instrument is out-of-focus; while of(f) focus refers to…
{ gazes } There is something violent in the thought that we must be only one. Whole. Only one identity. Static. Is there only one way to be human? We are…
{ concretization } To concretize is to make something concrete, specific or definite. Concretization is the process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing or exemplifying it. Does…
{ succession } Succession (from the Latin successio: “succession, inheritance”) constitutes a consistent, mostly irreversible change from one biocenosis (plant, animal, or microbial group) to another within a given area, due…
{ blind spot } When we ask ourselves what a blind spot is, we might define it as something that “we cannot know, what we cannot see, what we cannot represent.”[1]…
{ pākehā, pānokehā & trans taniwhaism } “Would you deliberately call a cheese camemberte?” “Hell no, I know better than that!” “But you would mispronounce Opoho? | Ōpoho |. If I…
{ overcoming } In a state of ongoing conflict, the verb “to overcome” or its present participle “overcoming” can be read as to defeat, beat, conquer, or prevail over the other…
{ object politics } What value a soul? Celebrated artists likely put heart and soul into their works; while colonial “curios” such as shrunken Māori heads resonate with their own ancestors…