WORDS 01 (RECALL)

[MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK, 2023]

Prose typeset onto White printed paper and scanned back in.

Black eco-Inkjet ink on 210 x 297mm stock paper.

TYPEFACE:

‘Kern’ by Pizza Typefaces.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

An Off-white portrait paper with Black printed text on stating “WORDS 01 (RECALL)

I wish we could travel in time-- just once though.

Not forward but back, of course.To a previous version of me before all of this shit going on. Before Tax. Before GCSEs.

I’d love to say to him all the things I have done. Who he’ll love and turn into potentially. But I know it won’t be the same after such an encounter; and would I be robbing him of his future?

Is that self-care: To change the outcome of another me so it’s not the same as mine right now?

Would he have less pain?

Would he have more love?

Would his existence better others?

I guess we’ll never know.

As I can’t travel in time right now and that boy has since journeyed to now, typing this up on a phone. - Harry Vincent 2023” in ALL CAPS with “WORDS 01 (RECALL” highlighted in Red. All on a Black background.

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