SALUTE TO THE SUN GOD IN MY HEAD

This work started as a part of a cross-innovation project called Sunplugged. The aim of the work was to be low-tech and so I wanted to use the contents of my brain as my search engine. I came to this via Georges Perec’s ‘Species of Spaces and Other Pieces’ ed. and trans. by John Sturrock (London: Penguin, 1997; rev. ed. 1999), published originally in Paris in 1974.

The work was published in Merachrosis Literary Magazine alongside a bunch of interesting work.

The final line, Sunset Song (too long for the young team) refers to the classic Scottish novel being removed from the reading list at schools. I saw not long thereafter, that works by Halldor Laxness were being cut from the Icelandic curriculum for the same reason. You can compress meaning and beauty into shorter texts, but you cannot inhabit them for days or weeks in the same way.

With Christian Stenquist and Mizu Mitro in Faro, 2025.