Surfing the Spectacle

The Walls of the World

The walls of the world sometimes spawn creatures.

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These monsters resemble the same animals who built the walls.

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They are lost. They do not know who they are.
They haunt daily life as secret shadows.

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Their skins frequently open to reveal immensities.

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Reaching. Reaching. Reaching and tumbling.
They are hungry. Hungry! They need. They need!

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They are babies. They destroy with their play.
Inversion and transformation. Creatures in flux.

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The struggle of understanding, of devouring.

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With the night, they crawl into themselves…

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and dream another universe.

[These fantastic images are drawn from the startling and phenomenal creations of a muralist who goes by the name of Blu – go here for his website and here for a site featuring a documentary on Blu’s work.]

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