IX: Synaesthesia | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "Come as You Are"

With my suitcases packed & the sky creased to its perfect middle, I’m the most beautiful I’ve ever been without having already left.

"The essential mystery of things is sometimes best articulated by their own organic resonances." (Ryan Griffith on Synaesthesia)

The artist’s dictum “trust your materials” only started to make sense in collage, with strange fabrics and colors and patterns coalescing in startling meaning.

VI: Interlude | Searchlight Song: "Breathing Exercises"

The great pause in my life is the way I am constantly forgetting to breathe. As such, I must always remind myself.