antonina szram 
 

pages in spring 2020

moving image,

3:21 min

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A moving image sketch, drawn in the lockdown period, exploring an art piece which commenced in 2002 but had to then be terminated. 

This piece is an attempt to start voicing the termination, and the uncanny feeling of time being nonlinear in this period of the lockdown, enabled this process. 

 

in insular equable, Island and I’s[land],

exercises in down – forward – lock 

                              lockdown is opening, 

dot-dash- forms, coded sentences because I

gently want to entangle, 

and disentangle a past’s account’s desire 

 

the lockdown is easing an unknot

initiations of bygones 

                      be present, 

fragments of presences,

still, veiled and start[led]