SEX: trace an S from tongue tip to blade point, then withdraw it back into its sheathe, held fast there by gripped flesh, the hilt abrasive against soft skin, gentle sin, clenching and unclenching, slithering limbs. What is touch beyond skin on skin? If the allure of sex is in the remnants found in its aftermath: tiny things which neither participant is keenly aware of, the tiny things that constitute the fount of life: blood, semen, mucus, vomit, bile, tears, milk, saliva, diarrhea, urine, sweat, pus… Fluids that form and take the shapes of vessels that remind us of our capacity to fill up and assume other contours, in surrender to a primal ecstasy. An animal at its most animal intent.

Curated by Norman Crisologo