Gallery – Page 64 – Kaiser Caimo

Things I found and hoarded this month. I’m not sure what’s going on with me.

1. Packaging for a Luxury Short Wig the colour of Maud’s “Blue Surf” ice-cream, featuring an image of an uncomfortable woman being devoured by the all-consuming Void.

2. Cryptic appointment card for a hospital.

3. Handwritten list of conservatively-named show dogs (?) and their owners.

4. Envelope for a guitar string discarded in a bar by a bluegrass covers-band duo.

5. Concise message from a greetings card.

6. A receipt for diesel, dropped on the roof by a man that came to pick a fight with my satellite dish, lodged in which was

7. a dead bird.

8. This is a pen drawing of mine that I don’t remember making.

One of the few objects left, and the only book, was Roland Yorke (1912), by Mrs Henry Wood; the epigraph on the title page is the last stanza from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “My Lost Youth”.

Attempting to take photographs through the fogged windows of a derelict house during strange spring evening light. Images of interiors partially obscured by condensation, spiderwebs, reflections and/or the mists of time.