The Centre of Gravity ( فارسی )

Writen By Fereydoon Ave, translated by Sohrab Mahdavi

TrunKated, 2nd Episode

There is at the centre of mother earth, the centre of gravity, hot molten larva and from time to time it erupts to create mountains, islands and seas. Like a pressure cooker, this excess energy needs safety valves to let off the heat and steam so the planet earth does not explode. Are these terrifying armour clad chimney pieces the safety valves that mother needs to protect herself? Dangerous, hard, shining scales on the outside and hollow silent, infinitely mysterious and spent on the inside.

When a porcelain object is in one piece; tense and virginal with no cracks, it is precious and perfect. Once it has been broken and mended it is always vulnerable and open to criticism; second hand. 

The hermit crab with its soft vulnerable underbelly has no permanent home and adopts empty shells that have no resemblance to it as a temporary shelter protecting itself. An exterior that betrays nothing of its weakness thus a disguise or another persona; an empty shell that the spirit has crawled out of.

Fereydoun Ave

2013