Eshi Eshi
Het Huis En Nu
(De-) Creatie
SP
Untitled
Het Huis En Nu
(The House And Now)
2024
(extract)
At the end of a warm summer, you sometimes
find the dried-out shell of an insect.
The outside is fully intact,
but the inside is empty and hollow.
The exoskeleton is brittle and light as a feather.
When I was little, I used to pick up those little bodies
before the wind could play with them.
I wondered what had happened to the inside.
Did it just dry up?
Was it eaten by another insect
or by parasite?
The exoskeleton gave me a feeling of sadness.
It was a trace of what once was
and will never be again.
When