Calamity Fair – Featured Artist
limbs
my entire network has
been rearranged
and my thoughts
are now that
of a bloodthirsty
petrel that
sits as my head,
reminding itself
it’s not
a sacred pelican
piercing its breast
to feed its young;
holes blaring
from wrists
like stapled paper
i stare into the mirror
as it floods through a dream of
octopus and spume
along the breadth of
this wall that stands beside me.
my face is a squall from the sea
through butterfly-wing lips,
and my body, amorphously
coral and mermaid,
cutout by replacements
of evolution and mind-matter
my hand has replaced
my nose has replaced
my ventricles have replaced
the rug and furniture at
my muscle
paralyzing and mutating
the fabric of what is
and what becomes
from what is
life is by impulse, nothing more,
and nothing planned,
and what you are is
much the same
i am crawling the floor
to the moon
and tripping like the sky
does the sea as itself
in the mirror, of
who is more beautiful,
the flat dimensional-self
or the self that cannot be seen
the hand reaches as it’s
sketched;
the mirror is a river,
and i am dripping
my feet
now tell ancient tales
about lovers that become
their consumption
of one another,
and myths about you
embodying nature
by strands of the
chaos theory that
connects each of our fragments
whole yet
infinitely abstract
by LORIN DREXLER
Calamity Fair
www.instagram.com/calamityfair/
Calamity Fair (aka John Vochatzer) is a collage-based mixed media artist from San Francisco. His corporeal, often macabre visions extend beyond fine art into album design, street art, and tattooing. He pulls from a wide variety of source materials with a strong focus on human anatomy and natural history. His inspirations range from Hieronymus Bosch to 20th-century surrealism and Ren & Stimpy.
What is Gen Society?
Gen Society is an art space blog for visual art and creative writing collaborations, and other randomizations. Hosted by writer and musician Lorin Drexler, this online venue is an expressive experience for those interested in the world of the arts. It is a literary journey through the hearts and minds of contemporary artists in practice and a reflection of those that have long passed.
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