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a film is a phonetic loan revered in the ways of its phenols

Shen Xin
Shen Xin
— 7 min read
one black and white 16mm frame of shadow like chilli plant with pointy chilli fruit tainted by oil of cotoneaster
bearing fruit of fondness | Grounds of Coherence #2, still from work in progress

The flow of currency that has existed between wind – 风 and phoenix – 凤 in Chinese language offers clarity for the intimacy between a host of beings', namely sound, feeling, kinship, and language. The phoenix's arrival gives kindred form to the relational embodiment that lies in the experience of sensing wind through sound, a debt of emotions is then paid through a phonetic loan. A sacredness passes to raise a collective in movement, and the reverence persists to belong to the winged.