Astrida Neimanis

Wadada Leo Smith/Raven Chacon

Eskimo folklore

NICOLE RUDICK

and in turn new forms of listening and attending to the other

Desired Landscapes, Issue 08 Glossary Astrida NeimanisWe walk in cities with no postcards, only to collect postcards from home. We close our eyes to move our bodies through dense tourism and rising floods. We drive through the past, holding on to occult rituals to stay rooted. We taste the city on the go, misled by its disguised faades and concealed staircases. We bring home wild plants, only to forget them, and choose to live beside volcanoes despite the risk. We switch off the lights to walk under the