Kate Destadio

Wow! This just speaks to me this month!
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Bones bend spacetime. One must move slowly with them, slowly as they themselves move. Whether it is the bones of diatoms flowing across the Atlantic ocean in processual plumes of life-giving dust, or the ancient bones of creatures we can only imagine today, bones are dense materialities - inviting prophecy, not pity. Inviting us to look again, inviting miracles, inviting slowing down.

Slowing down is thus about lingering in the places we are not used to. Seeking out new questions. Becoming accountable to more than what rests on the surface. Seeking roots. Slowing down is taking care of ghosts, hugging monsters, sharing silence, embracing the weird.

Slowing down is meeting the sensuous. The idea of slowing down is not about getting answers, it is about questioning our questions. It is about staying in the places that are haunted.

It is about uncovering bones.

Bayo Akomolafe

Photography by Eiji Yuzawa