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STUDIO LIALIOS VAZOURA
Christos Lialios, b. 1969, Athens. Lives in Athens. Katerina Vazoura, b. 1989, Athens. Lives in Athens.
Lost Bird, 2019
A project about feeling lonesome as a lost bird, facing violence, extinction, injustice, finding nature
and many other unspeakable feelings that can be transferred only through image and its correlations.
Must I read the Science Times to know that the Monarchs’ migration
is a fragile journey?
With a small amount of human negligence everything could disappear
My last thought as I finally fell
into a fitful sleep
My first thought as I picked up the telephone to get the bad news.
Glamour will not save our wintering grounds Better to stay a caterpillar and munch leaves than to risk all for the dazzling moment
of flight and the priceless illusion of freedom? Hardly.
A butterfly’s brain is only the side of a pin head, yet it knows how to get to Mexico
hitching rides on winds and spiraling columns of warm air
But the end of the Monarchs as we know them is here
I am learning to stay quietly in this apartment with my mother waiting for Iakshmi
We are dead souls on a cyclical journey
Future tourists will come to marvel at our poems festooning the gables of a broken civilisation Motels will be named after us and children
will parade in Monarch costumes when the season of our return is remembered.
Goodbye Elephant Goodbye Whale
Hello Aids Virus
Smaller is perhaps stronger after all
My dreams were bigger than any whale and sometimes I dove even deeper.
Ira Cohen, End of a Line December 1990
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