GHOST TOUCH

04/02/20

by Santiago X

The beautiful evaporating mundane, a sweet fleeting. Through atmospheres of interfacial spaced normals, we exchanged one for zero, everything for none. Rhythms interrupted by the silent flood. 

She wants to run again and not care, but reality is latent as of late. Everything tangible has been augmented. I went to change the remote batteries, and the buttons were missing. 

Internal inversions now glowing, burning in darkness. Inhaling desperate truth through cracked foundations, for mother's respite. The phantoms cast shadows. Looking back through shattered reflections, they can see us… reaching for each other, never reached. Pixels turn to dust.

I see you seeing me. I want to hold your hand, trust me, but neither of us would feel it. Neither of us would know.  

Written and rendered by Santiago X on April 1, 2020 for the Quarantine Times.

SANTIAGO X, M.Arch, MFA is an Indigenous futurist and multidisciplinary artist specializing in land, architectural, and new media installation. He is an enrolled citizen of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (Koasati) and Indigenous Chamoru from the Island of Guam U.S.A (Hacha'Maori). Santiago X has exhibited and designed internationally, including the World Expo in Shanghai, China; the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy; and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. He is a 2019 3Arts Award Winner, an invited contributor to the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and a 2020 American Arts Incubator Art and Technology Fellow. His website is santiagox.com.