OVERWHELM is less about punishment and more about vindication. Vindication that sometimes even perseverance, that vanguard of individualist hope in particular, will fail.

Grief is mundane, despite how profound of an emotion and process it is. Grief can also be cumulative and collective.

Carry a corpse out of the hostile, cold air. Stitch together a head wound with a fish hook and fishing line.

Frigg’s time on the island is fleeting, an intentional reminder of the ephemeral nature of oral histories.

“Make everyone think you’re ignorant. Make them think you’re forgetful. Make them think you’re unable to think on your own.”

MRSIS reflects on loneliness, on being, on wholeness, precisely through its “imaginative thinking.”

Shadows, as a collective entity, are natural and need not be characterized as Other.

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