Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

"Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth", is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s "Bluets", "Pathemata" merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life. In scrupulously distilled prose, "Pathemata" offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others.