“The years have flown”
Montage #6
21 June 2019
“The years have flown and there at the same places as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.
For the following series of juxtapositions, I invited Elsa-Louise Manceaux to pair up some of her drawings with fragments from Samuel Beckett’s “closed space” novels as well as paragraphs from Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half Formed Thing (2015) and from Lina Meruane’s Fruta Podrida (2016).
“The years have flown and there at the same places as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.
“They come with fruitcakes. Brown-skin nylons. Leatherette shoes. Mammy I have to go to the toilet.
“Come running by the lake. Eyes mist to the wind feel the fresh rush past. That new day it’s so early in the morning. I step there. Cool and cold and colder.
“Knowing from experience that the height or length you have in common is the sum of equal segments.