Ruins of Fiction
2023
The Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is a squid from the abyss, living in impermanent hierarchies, ephemeral existences, and ever-changing language.
This is the tale of how it came to the surface and melted from its pressure. The depthless’ imposed rationality, truth, and orders were incompatible with the Squid and led it to a slimy death.
The love of three hearts is inadequate.
It thrives in the abyss, where it wears the world on its skin, devours what it encounters, and gets devoured as well.
It prospers in constant change and movement, and the surface’s urge to define and order has brought it to its fall. What’s left is its retracted tentacles, holding a nest of its fiction and poetics, standing next to its melting corpse, and the imposed definitions of its being.
[etchings on copper from drawings from the Institut de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Louis Bec]