{"id":3949,"date":"2019-04-01T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2019-04-01T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:01:49","slug":"artist-of-the-month-hector-castells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/artist-of-the-month-hector-castells\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist of the Month \u2013 H\u00e9ctor Castells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;38&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;Featured Artist of the Month: Hector Castells&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>These poems belong to the Puddle Heroes series, by the hectic fish. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Puddle heroes is a collection of pictures of puddles with people on it, people not necessarily drowned as much as free floating<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They are the icons of all the rhymes that follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All the photographs have been turned upside down, which is an involuntary tribute to the photographer dyslexia<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The idea behind it is that sometimes reality is better upside down, likely always.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the idea behind is also that water dignifies, which is something that funerals do as well, for they are the only places in humanity, besides puddles, where people understands silence and go without themselves. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or their ego.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is the great thing about working with people reflected: they are egoless for they belong to your imagination. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>all verses are written in pencil because sinking the tip of mine on photographic paper is an experience as silent and devoid of ego, as water and poetry are<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rubble fish<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>my heart is a red fish<br \/>\nthat eats blue rubble<br \/>\nand loves scrabble,<\/p>\n<p>my heart is the<br \/>\nred playlist<br \/>\nthat you yellowed<br \/>\non crystal sand<\/p>\n<p>on black sundays<br \/>\nwhen the lord fails to<br \/>\ndeliver shelter<br \/>\nand the cripple crumble<br \/>\nlong before<br \/>\nthe corporate rumble<\/p>\n<p>my tongue skips and rhymes<br \/>\nwhite canvas and blue velvet<br \/>\nas my keypad chooses the sky<br \/>\nagainst my tendency to sly<\/p>\n<p>idiot as it is<br \/>\nstupid is it not<\/p>\n<p>the algorithm<br \/>\nkeeps playing<br \/>\nsongs of love<br \/>\nand wisdom<\/p>\n<p>where Newton shines<br \/>\nin his own rainbows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BIRTHDAY WAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coming to an age there\u2019s one tear and my rage.<br \/>\nMy skinny tree has blown all its CV\u2019s,<br \/>\nfloating leaves with former articles and ex professions;<br \/>\ncolliding against empty trays&amp;huge depressions.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>once there was a notion<br \/>\nand two degrees.<br \/>\nthe spirit of democracy<br \/>\ncost me all amphetamines<br \/>\n&amp; a PhD.<\/p>\n<p>could have been an orchard<br \/>\nwith a lemon tree;<br \/>\nthought I knew<br \/>\nI wanted to be free<\/p>\n<p>all my branches are now empty,<br \/>\ncracking slowly as one deep wrinkle.<br \/>\n36 dilemmas and a skinny rope<br \/>\nshould be enough to roll down all my hopes<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nend of September<br \/>\none more millimetre.<br \/>\ndripping like serum<br \/>\nin cold plastic bags,<br \/>\nearly ages are crawling towards<br \/>\nits aftermath<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHIT FUCK YOU CHAT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>oh my dog,<br \/>\nme life for a Xanax<br \/>\nYves Tumor song<br \/>\nis a sonic sword;<br \/>\non its tip, we rattle.<\/p>\n<p>your acid work<br \/>\nkeeps on dripping<br \/>\nlike a double-bassed<br \/>\nlittle green devil<br \/>\non sixteen deafening speakers,<br \/>\nsliding so close<br \/>\n&amp; far away;<br \/>\nin absolute disarray.<\/p>\n<p>this is not my fault.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s my fucking fall.<\/p>\n<p>I gently spike the bushes,<br \/>\nits lighters and its promises,<br \/>\nwords pouring away<br \/>\nlike little green devils<\/p>\n<p>out of control, not aiming<br \/>\nat one single point<br \/>\nbut wondering what\u2019s<br \/>\nthe whole fucking point<br \/>\nof your endless black pint<\/p>\n<p>the fucking interstellar shithole<br \/>\nwhere I CHIT FUCK YOU<br \/>\nCHAT you for hours,<br \/>\nwhile you dripped<br \/>\nand repeated<br \/>\nall your never-ending routines.<\/p>\n<p>you use to rhyme your words,<br \/>\nin mathematical equations<br \/>\nof love and wisdom,<br \/>\nwhere I was the cat<br \/>\nand you were the snow<\/p>\n<p>white forests came too early<br \/>\nlike some guns<br \/>\nor most of the flowers,<br \/>\nthat rarely appear at the start<\/p>\n<p>this is you and me<br \/>\ntogether in our mayhem<br \/>\nso inescapable and reversed,<br \/>\nlike a Friday<br \/>\nin a nasty Monday way<\/p>\n<p>same sugar, identical dopamine;<br \/>\nyour bluntness grew fat<br \/>\nas you kept the cheat and the chat,<br \/>\ntrading dolphins<br \/>\nfor mosquitoes<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHIT FUCK YOU CHAT me no more,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>as your sweat drips<br \/>\nmy body weakens<br \/>\nonce you\u2019d reach your vein<br \/>\nI\u2019d lonely lose my name.<\/p>\n<p>I neglect the errands,<br \/>\nand make amends<br \/>\nwith mistakes<br \/>\nby fucking them slowly<br \/>\nup and down,<br \/>\nnice and gently,<br \/>\nin all directions;<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s equally maddening to think<br \/>\nabout the island by your shore,<br \/>\nrealizing that I&#8217;m here<br \/>\nand I\u2019m not<\/p>\n<p>that you sink<br \/>\nand I don\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>the air shaking,<br \/>\nfucking crunching the barley<br \/>\nof your CHIT FUCK YOU CHAT<br \/>\nits endless swifts<br \/>\nin bloomless fields<\/p>\n<p>spinning in layers<br \/>\nerratic onions:<br \/>\nin every thin line,<br \/>\nlies a fat oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LITTLE GOAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a little goat sighs above my head.<br \/>\nsoftly wrapped in Sunday dreams,<br \/>\nher lightened breath<br \/>\nsweeps tomorrow\u2019s beams.<\/p>\n<p>weekend fades another<br \/>\nmonday dead.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nyoung ibex<br \/>\nswapped the heat<br \/>\nfor two cold feet.<br \/>\nher former curls<br \/>\ngot frozen under wool.<br \/>\nnow she is like a woman<br \/>\nlying by some pool.<br \/>\nthe sudden stop<br \/>\nof skinny orgasms,<br \/>\nkept her kind of cool.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nwind quite blows<br \/>\nuncompromised frights.<br \/>\na bunch of punctured clouds<br \/>\nare gathering to fight<\/p>\n<p>little goat smells the air<br \/>\nand sees the cliff.<br \/>\nIt only takes one memory<br \/>\nto get her belly stiff.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\ndirty rain recalls<br \/>\nthe flavour of her pain.<br \/>\nthere was no hope<br \/>\nin those remote slopes.<\/p>\n<p>the skylight bleeds<br \/>\nnorthern thunderlights<br \/>\nare freaking out her tail<br \/>\ncreature turning pale<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nrun run run,<br \/>\nlittle young ibex.<br \/>\nthere is no fun<br \/>\nin repressed sex.<br \/>\nfar away from your jungle,<br \/>\nthere\u2019s an irish psycho<br \/>\nand a triangle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cassandravoices\">We rely on contributions to keep Cassandra Voices going<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;38&#8243; 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