Slack

On research trip to Yinchuan, China, with Bbeyond [performance art collective] in October 2024 I came upon and unfamiliar and unexpected scene. At the 108 Pagodas, tourist site, I sat to rest and noticed rabbits in a cage nearby. I wrote a short poem:

two fat bunnies
on a swing

they don’t know
that they live

at a world heritage site

Afterwards I used an app to translate it to simplified Chinese. I then copied this into my book. I used the app again to check if I had written it correctly. The app interpreted it as:

We live, Creating a slack in the world.

I work in sketchbooks. I filled a 250 page book with drawings, stamps and writing from the research residency in China and I continue to develop work on this.