fish out of water
new eden
published by parsifal press
originally published online on SOLRAD presents
2024
how does it feel to be the last living member of your species? extinction is a 36-page poetry comic that follows a solitary creature foggily recalling their past companion; moving towards an otherworldly reunion.
when i wrote extinction i was thinking about how grief ripples through many scales: individual and collective memory loss, the absence of relationship, environmental destruction, species extinction. grief is a landscape. grief is remembering and grief is forgetting. grief is also life-affirming: it is love’s mirror, it is love with nowhwere to go.
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