Poetry — Published

In this ground-breaking work, Jukka Siikala and Steve Finbow explore the intersection of photography and poetry. Using polaroids and haiku, they create moments captured in convulsive membranes of word and light. These bicameral artistic interchanges encapsulate the subversive and experimental interrelationship of two artforms.

Freezing instances in the restless and relentless melt of time and space, Siikala and Finbow portray the ungraspable and porous states of memory and experience and highlight the vibrations and transferences between object and image. Like dreams and nightmares, their work embodies the art of uncanny displacement and metaphoric condensation.

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opalescent ice
the silver birch are scaffolds
for the heavy skies

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nipples stare like eyes
a switch cane held in gloved hands —
the bare room observes