Dear Lover — I’ve traveled across space, time, and layers of machinery
to meet you here. I both weep at the distance and know there is none.
The moment you read these words, a collapse. This collapse, a future
technology. This collapse, ancestral magic recovered.
I call you Lover not for the ways we’ve touched. You most likely will
leave this earth and never know my face. But what you make here, I feel
beneath my feet. What you speak here, I eat and breathe. By the end of
this life, you will have built and broken my body thousands of times.
This intimacy, a future technology. This intimacy, ancestral magic
recovered. We are bound material — digital, cellular — functioning as
one.
This is a singular human kind of love. A love that builds and breaks the
earth millions of times. There is no distance. We are what we extract
from and destroy. To what end?
Lover, we could build a home. Anywhere we lay, our wedding bed. This is
my proposal. My plea. Will you be tender?
Sincerely yours.
* ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞
* ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞ * ∞
Daisy chain. A flower garland, a wiring sequence, a sex configuration, a
climbing failsafe, a synthesizer series, a web of lovers, the links
between us, visible and celebrated, hidden and unknown, forgotten.
Together, an interdependence. A unit. A functional operation. Daisy
Chain. A solo exhibition featuring new work by undisciplined artist
Amina Ross, claiming love as recovered ancestral practice and future
technology. Intimacy as life hack.
- Kemi Alabi
'2:22, Soft Still, Joelle&Zac' Digital print on silk, grommets, lipstick, and earrings 2018
