eros/ion

"Eros/ion is a self-eroding, unstable cenotaph – an event or performance rather than an object or monument – as love disappears and reappears, oscillating between shimmers of presence and absence, and transforming over the course of that oscillation. Love lost by natural processes of decay, erosion, and circumstance, as well as by unnatural processes of violence and betrayal, in the past and present, in the imagination and in the everyday world of lived relationship, is re-activated as aesthetic-ecstatic exorcism. Immersion in a bed of intertexts and elemental cognates allows the emergence and working-through of delicate feelings long unexpressed. Each collaborator tells his or her story sparked by the other's phrases, creating an interweave of narrative and overlap of emotions, distinct but generatively eco-symbiotic. The collaborative process through which the text is produced mimics erosive eros, but in a sublimated haven of words-as-coils, connective tissue, articulated flesh, divided paths, collided intentions, dynamic misunderstandings and creative camaraderie. - This proximation is a lifeline we walk from the woods to the kitchen, from the garden to the studio, singly and in pairs. We hope it offers solace as well to those remembered and memorialized in the text who are now beyond our earthly reach." - The Authors