The body seeks transformative experiences. Like nesting dolls, beauty and terror are contained within each other, their boundaries neatly preserved. Desire is a hammer. Breakthrough to the lush liminal space; new states of being, confusion, heightened awareness, bewilderment.

Smolthoughts is a collection of short poems and photographs that uses the vernacular to describe spectacular experiences; the body’s desire for exaltation and the transcendence of form.

These poems and photographs were produced entirely on a phone - a device that belies its depths. Digital spaces lack a traditional sense of form which engenders a feeling of infiniteness and possibility. Form is dependent on traceable limits, Smolthoughts interrogates that relationship by exploring what exists beyond the confines of form.

Metaphors used within Smolthoughts include flowers, the colour blue, the sky, the night, and the body. Collectively these metaphors build associations with infiniteness and expansion. Boundaries are blurred and edges become vague memories by the sky and the night. As a principle theme, the body is presented as a container for its potentiality; the site of its transformation. Blue brings a sense of distance, the location of desire. Blue is the liminal space between the body and that which it desires.

Pop music is a significant point of reference that provides a phenomenological aspect to this collection. In particular, the way pop manifests a conscious experience of desire. Pop’s indelible connection to the present moment heightens a sense of urgency to unify with something greater than ourselves. It calls for a hedonistic indulgence in the sensations of desire, and pursuit of its euphoric release.