Justine Highsmith
fall 2019
poet-in-digital-residence
About Justine Highsmith:
she is the bodily being
in-the-world-machine
a prototype for objects
that scream in broad daylight
a vast ceiling of gray water
untie the ocean and feel
her wall pressing on every side.
justinehighsmith.com
fall 2019
poet-in-digital-residence
About Justine Highsmith:
she is the bodily being
in-the-world-machine
a prototype for objects
that scream in broad daylight
a vast ceiling of gray water
untie the ocean and feel
her wall pressing on every side.
justinehighsmith.com
residency statement:
"SLEEP FROM DREAMS" is a sapphic verse poetic dialogue with Hypnos/Sleep and Oneiros/Dream. In this text, they discuss the power dynamics of desire, love, and pleasure while floating down a river (the blue page) between states of consciousness. Is one desire more important than another? Can we experience pleasure without a means to an end? The physical line that separates them erodes from this paradox of (dis)satisfaction drawing near, nearer, now.
part one
part two
part three