Write your name in piss Write your novel in the sand Write your will on the road Write your love poems in pebbles in the garden for the flowers to grow beside As she said the war is on the imagination and it's the battle of your life to protect and nurture our god nature To rewild the mind against the grids and dualism and the line To honor your sacred geometry that we're all born with
Send the story as a voicenote to a lover Whisper one another to sleep like we've been doing since the dawn of time Handprints on the wall Shadows thrown against stone Fire teaches us about the potential of ash as the transmitter of the collective narrative arc The grief The fertilizer The urgent faith required for transmutation & & &...
There is no end to this story
Clay AD is a north node Capricorn who is a student of the body. His expressions of that study are art, writing, facilitating workshops and offering somatic bodywork 1-on-1 online and in Glasgow where he lives. His poetry book, "Holy Bodies" was published this summer with Pilot Press. The Willing, the Willful and the Will a' Wisp is his first solo exhibition.
Martin Steuck is an artist currently living and working in Glasgow. Their practice is broad and interdisciplinary, incorporating DIY sound-making and recording, collaborative improvisation, Poetry, acting, drawing, and events organiser and facilitator. Martin graduated in 2011 with a BA Hons degree in Fine Art from the University of College Falmouth after which they worked in care supporting Autistic individuals in Brighton for 5 years. Personal experiences of financial precarity, insecure housing, and care work has greatly informed their practice, specifically with regards to the effects of an ideologically manufactured austerity on capacities of imagination, resistance and collective joy.
part of the series warm fuzzes cold prickles
kindly funded by the Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig
curated by Colette Patterson
photography Moritz Richter