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Object Impermanence

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January 3, 2022
Collage with a photo of an old man in the center, encircled by a nest of twigs, a cityscape is behind him and there is a large moth at the top
Ordinary Memory Holds Light, James Diaz, 2021

James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I…

A box surrounded by cotton balls and flowers, there are three images of women in the box, and the words 'Beyond the Lowland every light Sleepless burning ash'
Collage with a photo of an old man in the center, encircled by a nest of twigs, a cityscape is behind him and there is a large moth at the top
Collage with two dancing bears on cotton balls, a disembodied pair of legs are in the foreground, with a person facing away behind them
A collage with a persons legs in the center, their body is covered in cotton balls and their face is replaced with a fresh red flower
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Object Impermanence
A box surrounded by cotton balls and flowers, there are three images of women in the box, and the words 'Beyond the Lowland every light Sleepless burning ash'
1 A box surrounded by cotton balls and flowers, there are three images of women in the box, and the words 'Beyond the Lowland every light Sleepless burning ash'
2 Collage with a photo of an old man in the center, encircled by a nest of twigs, a cityscape is behind him and there is a large moth at the top
3 Collage with two dancing bears on cotton balls, a disembodied pair of legs are in the foreground, with a person facing away behind them
4 A collage with a persons legs in the center, their body is covered in cotton balls and their face is replaced with a fresh red flower
Burning Ash

James Diaz, 2021

Source: James Diaz
Object Impermanence
Collage with a photo of an old man in the center, encircled by a nest of twigs, a cityscape is behind him and there is a large moth at the top
Ordinary Memory Holds Light

James Diaz, 2021

Source: James Diaz
Object Impermanence
Collage with two dancing bears on cotton balls, a disembodied pair of legs are in the foreground, with a person facing away behind them
Healing Is Always A Flicker

James Diaz, 2021

Source: James Diaz
Object Impermanence
A collage with a persons legs in the center, their body is covered in cotton balls and their face is replaced with a fresh red flower
Empty Table And First Light

James Diaz, 2021

Source: James Diaz

My collages are a practice of healing and self-care for times when I am especially manic, depressed or dissociating. Modelled on and inspired by the cut-up practice of the late Genesis P-Orridge, I attempt to explore, visually and textually, themes of identity/dis-identification, trauma and healing.

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James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush, Corporeal, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Rust + Moth, Yes Poetry and Cobra Milk Mag. They live in upstate New York.

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