photo and prose poem: katalin pusztaszeri
On sounds of isolation and other disturbances
A sonic-boom carpet! ...that is the name of the cone-shaped double shockwaves that form in the air when supersonic air jets buzz off above your head... on the first vacation day of summer...I stepped on a cracking wooden pier of an abandoned shore segment... standing in a tight-fit triathlon suit...waiting for a floppy-dive at the shallow-end...the sun was shining so bright, I was bathing in my own sweat...the sweat was just dripping bluntly under the polyester space-dress...suddenly raising sound-streams blew into my head, in the middle of nowhere...an ear-splitting noisy double bumming shrilling throughout my canals...hurting my eardrums...in that boisterous way...they were ready to explode or crack...this heavy noise-pollution is quite not I had expected on a lonely peaceful beach like that...all coming from an Air-Force base close to the volcanic basin I was being settled...unpleasant, but better than a fatal explosion in the home nuclear power plant...I guess...but by rethinking it twice!...that would put an end to all sufferance I had gotten...A sonic-boom carpet...or a blast in a home nuclear power plant? Which one is the best?
Everyone is tending for escapism, harmony or consonance... especially the hurt and injured ones...for calming down the ragged nerves and the inveterate detriments... but reality is lurking from behind...slinking in unexpected moments, howl into your face shakes you up and throws you off-balance.
I am standing on the deck...waiting for to take that one and only step...fallen in my own deafness with crawling-alienated thoughts in my skull-head...time stops... air congeals.
The nothing whispers throughout the horizon-bends :
Cast all your fears off, put on a mimicry mask!
Die another day, take a heavy breath!
Let's jump off the deep-end and continue life as long as we have that!
Let's float across the sonic-boom carpet...and forget the nuclear disaster idea-cast!
about the artist: katalin pusztaszeri
Katalin Pusztaszeri is an art professional and photographer living in Budapest, Hungary. She started taking photographs in 2013, as a part of her recovery from a spinal cord surgery. In the beginning, she used photography as neuro-feedback to alter her attention from pain and anxiety. She realized that by means of creation, she has been able to release all of the suppressed and latent feelings she felt were clogged in her body throughout the years. At this point, creating pictures has become an urgent and utmost need to convey her thoughts and ideas toward the outside world.
