Blood red lotus
Image via Michael Ku Gallery by © RongRong & inri, courtesy of the artists
A poetic collaboration featuring
words by Kathryn Carter
+ art by RongRong & inri
asphalt
Photograph from Tsumari Story series (2012-2014) Gelatin Silver Print by © RongRong & inri, courtesy of the artists
Fallen rain, caught
in asphalt cavities
betrays distant silhouettes
of strangled branches
bearing the weight
of tomorrows
we can’t touch.
So [in lieu of hope]
we long for
the sage to be unsilenced.
cyon air
Photograph from Tsumari Story series (2012-2014) Gelatin Silver Print by © RongRong & inri, courtesy of the artists
They fly the blood red lotus
[grown in molten mud
by her unstained fingers]
far from neon sirens
in halos of stars that
abseil the fresh cut sky.
Willingly engulfed by wild lavender,
they fall, self-sacrificed
to airborne fields never known
where shadows wander,
[weightless of iron spheres]
void by cyon air of all that was,
bathed pure in nectar.
waxed crescent
Photograph from Tsumari Story series (2012-2014) Gelatin Silver Print by © RongRong & inri, courtesy of the artists