"The miracle: a window of time that had not previously existed. a slight pause between pain and reaction. the window is slim, no more than fifteen seconds, but in that crucial gap something can shift, and the hemispheres can spend a moment in conversation. I can move between meat and story. what I feel versus what I want. then, I decide. a lot of the time, I still decide to go to sleep." Elvia Wilk, Death by Landscape, 2022.
Image credit: San Diego Historical Society
"The miracle: a window of time that had not previously existed. a slight pause between pain and reaction. the window is slim, no more than fifteen seconds, but in that crucial gap something can shift, and the hemispheres can spend a moment in conversation. I can move between meat and story. what I feel versus what I want. then, I decide. a lot of the time, I still decide to go to sleep." Elvia Wilk, Death by Landscape, 2022.
Image credit: San Diego Historical Society