Collaborations > The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water
Artist Kiki Smith created a sequence of forty-three drawings, which she sent as color Xeroxes to the poet Leslie Scalapino. Scalapino then created the poem around them, “using the sense of an unalterable past occurrence: One female, apparently the same girl, is repeatedly, in very similar images as variations, bitten and clawed by a leopard-like, lion-like animal. […] Neither the girl nor the animal articulate expression, as if phenomena of feeling(s) do not exist.” The book, in an edition of only forty-five copies, is covered in a soft ultrasuede binding with drawings hand-colored by the artist.