Distance

“The bungalow is made of a long envelope.” Little folks’ handy book. 1910.

A Painful Pot - Johnson Tsang / Porcelain /  L28  W20  H45 cm / 2013

Johnson Tsang is a Hong Kong-based sculptor who blends realist sculpting techniques with surrealist imagery.

laughter as submission

to regards unmet and words unspoken

we were the last fireflies in a darkening world

and our dance was brief and inconsiderate

tossed off before it got started,

wasted kindling.

love so dull it disappears on an overcast day,

love so gray, void of any color

because we left it sitting out unused

and unquestioned.

they caught the mastermind the same day

and let us henchmen walk free

free as the chains

we left covered in paint

next to the heater vent

years of comfort in winter

solidified their form to the floor

so besides

the occasional stubbed toe