rupture in the stead of rapture

Written By Sophie Burns

Painting by Andrey Remnev


“We are collectively undone; the wall that divided us from the world at large is breached. Rupture in the stead of rapture. Now we must now inhabit the cracks and ask how to make offerings to those cracks. Now we must seek out a wilder kinship with the alien insurgents that have joined us in the dyadic room of mentorship. A multitudinous space. We must now study with this brokenness to know how to feel, how to see, what to feel, what to imagine, what to ask. Sitting with this non-knowing as generative. We must go down to the underworlds where things are not proper, knowing spiritual companionship as a fugitive ‘Undercommons’. We cannot afford refuge; we must make sanctuary.”
- Bayo Akomolafe, Coming Down To Earth

Sophie Burns

radical romantic • artist • writer • menstruation enthusiast • yogini • dreamer • casual phenomenologist • occasional psychonaut • budding herbalist • rewilder of inner ecology • recovered disordered eater • self-love chaperone • visionary • shadow integration proponent • aries sun, taurus rising, gemini moon • world traveler • intuitive pianist • former and forever child • aspiring wise woman • earth lover • devotee

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