On the Laughter of Discarded Objects

Don't Be Deflated (SA/2022)

 From the Revenge of the Objects Series

 

 

It was bad enough when the clouds began to laugh and the trees stopped listening. 

 

But now even objects which have been thrown out as rubbish, or left lying about as litter, seem to be poking fun at us; as if they regard man as worthy only of scorn in his anthropocentric conceit ...

 

Gone are the days when, like madmen, drunk on the thought of our own exceptionalism, we were the ones laughing at all things beneath the sun - nettles, stones, ducks, etc.