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of light and of dark, and the screaming in between

‘If you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes in to you’- Nietzsche

Enter If You Dare

The world we are in now feels chaotic. Disembodying.

We stare constantly into the abyss. War. Famine. Neo-fascism. Epidemics. Natural disasters. Ecological destruction. A relentless procession of endings. Sometimes it feels as if the end is nearing. But perhaps it has always felt this way. How many people have predicted the apocalypse in this century alone? In the last? How many generations have believed they were living through the final chapter?

And still, every day, there are new predictions of collapse. New maps of the abyss.

But the abyss has always been with us.

This is the dark place.

Not the one that is coming. Not the one over the horizon. The one beneath our feet. The one we wake up inside of. The one we scroll through, work through, dream through.

all we have left to do is turn on the light.

Meet the artist
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    of loneliness

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  • lumos

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    Oct 1, 2020

    lumen amen lumen amen light amen light, light, light this fierce prayer. light give me light. it is hunger the deepest belly-ache, screeching begging for the satisfaction of oblique darkness,…

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  • the scream

    Depression, Micro-Poetry, Prose, Writing

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    Sep 29, 2020

    lumen

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    Jun 29, 2020

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  • we could be in revolt

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    On the “you can’t blame the government” sentiment…

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  • teetering

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    May 21, 2020

    of reluctant lingering in the place of hollow bodies

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