Inferno

madder root and mud and fig and limestone and algae and votives and flutes and fire and olive wood sap and honey bread and pomegranate and sweet wine and silver and wax and salt lakes and stars and serpents and tombs and st michael and lazarus and… sharing a room with a mud dauber.. sharing a body with a botfly 🦠

(because i have struggled to put together the vastness of feeling and sensing and remembering of this five week reverie over june/july 2021 and maybe this is a good! start!)

1. a barefoot zoe wears a leopard print dress and looks out to the left. she holds a root cutting tool. in the background the sky has faded into pink and the hot earth is thick with dust.

2. a black and white image. abbie holds a root of madder and looks into the camera. in the field behind her there are trees. sarah bends over the earth as she digs for madder.

3. zoe, in the same place now wears a dark shirt over her dress and the digger is out of frame. as she looks into the camera, she is no longer centred in this image as she was in the first.