Imagine an animal – perhaps one familiar, perhaps one you have never encountered before.

Allow the animal to perceive you – sense you, to scan you in its own way, to categorize you –
as prey, as a predator, a fellow beast, a human being, an owner or as a stranger.

Approach each other with caution, look deep into each other’s eyes – or with an equivalent sense.

Imagine it is possible to ask each other.

Who am I? Who are you?

Love is… ?

by Anushiye Yarnell

Firstly search for a colpa [salty water spring], there you will find all kinds of prey. After a few days of hunting, the animals will become malicious, then you must go somewhere else, try for example path no. 2, then take path no. 3. If you find nothing, choose path no. 4. If you again find nothing, try path no. 5, where you will notice footprints from peccary, those will lead you to path no. 6, where you will hunt in the days following. In the next moon, you can go back to the colpa, the animals will return to be ingenuous.
- C. Prohaño, Yagua story

I started this project trying to collect memories from my old loves. I contacted them and asked the memories they kept of me as a present. It was my way to reconstruct or fill my body with new words.

I got nothing in response.

Then, I start reading again my own love memories, again and again I came, I left, I visit. I found it clear myself being a female nomad and it became a wish to find a place to land.

Now, I realize that my collecting project is somehow a search for a home, at least my own body.

I pluck my plume.
And there, into the opening
I weave your plume
into the silky slope of flight.
A lovenest of connection and separation.
A daydream for a crane’s placenta.

Paul Hurley (Wales) Becoming-locust

Anushiye Yarnell (Wales) Bear (the Wanderer)

There was a love affair and there was the Bear.
The Bear was a he or at least was the skin for a he
And after he left, that skin was all she had left
She wore it sometimes
So the Bear became a she.