53,7474 N 7,4926 E – Seaweed embedded on the beach of a North Sea island after a heavy storm. Uprooted from the ocean, washed onto the shore, dried in the sun, largely covered by sand, transformed into calligraphy.
Same view, different day. Same sky, different mood. Same ocean, different fragrance. Same silence, different sound. Same universe, different consciousness.
In a dreamlike, floating language, these poetic glimpses unfold like galaxies composed of memory, perception, and love. The poems tell—non-linearly, in circular and often spiral movements—of a deeply felt connection between the lyrical self and a nearly mythical figure: Lo.
Lo appears as projection, beloved, force of nature, and metaphysical center—at times ethereal and distant, at times tangibly tender, and often entirely unfathomable. Her presence oscillates between light and ice, voice and silence, presence and absence. At the heart is the experience of a transcendent closeness where language, perception, science, and dream blend into one. The textual space is not geographically defined, but cosmological: moons, planets, light phenomena, currents, quantum states, sonic textures, and elemental forces of nature serve as metaphoric carriers of inner states. Poetry and physics interweave into a field of subtle oscillations: time stretches, matter liquefies, meaning pulses. These poems form a kind of physics of love—full of devotion, uncertainty, and metaphysical sensitivity.
At the center stands a single motif: the longing for the Other as a mirror of one’s own existence—and the simultaneous awareness of the ungraspability of this wonder. In Lo, the universe condenses—and yet precisely because she is everything, she cannot be held. This paradox is the luminous pain and the beauty of this poetic world.
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In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
A collection of images and stories which came together as a different take on Cape Town, blurring the boundaries between urban topographics, social documentary, personal diary and conceptual art. This project was born over a far off ocean, it is a collaboration between Rike Michaelsen, Andrea Mönch and Hetty Zantman.
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