© Benjamin Turnquest, 2024

drown

burnquest
Mar 10, 2024

14x17'', acrylic on paper

What’s it like to be so surrounded, yet faded into shades of blue? Drowning is sometimes an experience entirely felt outside of water. It’s the moments above ground where you don’t know where your skin stops and another’s begins. To be completely unconscious, but still pulsating in the rhythms of a cramped room. Tears stain, blood rushes and the air begins to slowly stop finding the lungs. However, the deeper fallen, the more suffocating begins to feel like breathing again. Yearning to find what lies beneath — sink. Full of fear and reckless abandon, let the crowd take control. Good night.

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