and there are eight billion of them!
girl who is animated, she is a flesh and marrow golem - a division of the world that runs according to the needs of a number of complex cohabitating forms of life, notably coming in the form of a number of sponges each with its own distinguishing properties and materials. The body, that is, that political organisation of sponges, reshapes itself as an organic sculpture. The sculpture looks something like a city that reaches into the sky, and there it is in conversation with a great light that drives it.
Burrowed in the furrows 'tween the eyebrows of the cliff face is a woman, dark and narrow, with her posture like a spiral. "In the furrows," she is saying, "in the furrows."
The leaves on the wall that are different shades of green and feel leathery and slick and almost oily are the leaves of an ivy, probably Hedera helix.
The expansive bush with arching branches and tight hemispherical clusters of white flowers trailing one by one along each branch is bridal-wreath spirea, Spiraea prunifolia. I love how its leaves resemble fern fronds, or little paws.
it is always an amazing feeling to be out in the world and to remember that you can touch, pick up, and inspect anything for any reason or no reason. almost everything in the world i just look at without touching. but i can touch almost anything