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Kettle by Shoko Kashima

August/Sept 2005

A siren is heard - and so it is true, then - that a disaster is approaching this and every neighboring anthill. The ants are instructed to take their valuables and run. Some ants mistake this for taking their values and running. Instead of telling you some kind of bullshit about ants and their various objects of sentimental value that
they pack up into little bundles and take with them as they flee, I am more interested in the ants, a majority of them, in fact, who choose to take each other. There are ants that carry other ants, and ants that get carried. Some ants - fewer, but some - carry each other, and they carry each other.

coming soon / now available! Four Factorial!!!!!!
call for insects is still on:
here
readings online:
here
domo films (eugene): here
    (see Nocturne No.9, featuring the kettle)
photo: by Shoko Kashima

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August 30, 2005
Sawako Nakayasu
e-mail: sawako at gmail.com
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