Antennas of Absence by Sudeep Adhikari
Antennas of Absence “The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space I look at the mosaic of corroded bricks, on the skin of an earthquake ridden house in my neighborhood. Almost a Pollock's like painting of an overpowering absence. I can't unfeel it. What have you in your innermost depths? What is the grammar of your mute, which speaks the language of a melting day? What is the color of infinity, trapped inside the cuboids of your incomplete death? Questions translate to answers in themselves, and absence is not always a void. Right on its thin concrete slab, a bird sits and watches over an anxious city, sending radio-waves to satellites of unnamable aches. Bio: Sudeep Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer from Kathmandu, Nepal. His recent publications were with Red Fez , Kyoto ...