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Sunday 30 November 2014
New Poem: Dress
I was watching a channel that I didn’t know existed
and a man was explaining that they had been doing
visual research on street clothes and they had picked
up on the meme of the ragged dress. The ragged
dress, he said, spoke as much of absence as presence
and that modernity asks us to represent the binary.
There were some stills of people sleeping rough and
some moving footage of refugees resting. The man
pointed at the clothes and said that there were gaps,
‘aporia’ through which we see the body. The body he
explained is never ‘innocent’ but is always constructed
in time and space and whether we inflict damage on it,
or enclose it, or restrict its movements or eroticize it,
these are choices. The man then opened another file
and showed the designs he had made for “The Ragged
Dress”. I was watching a channel that I didn't know
existed.