it smells of eagerness and embarrassment, and, most of all, longing
Borrowing Dionne Brand’s eloquent and fertile allegory of Torontonian’s unavoidable “spillage” of existences, odours, litter, touch, remnants, histories and difference, this work meditates on the politics and poetics of trash and invites us to engage with residual materials as affective objects that can narrate significant stories of Otherness through a self-reflective approach.