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Mammal One

A spoken-word poem by Ana María Caballero visualized via a series of works coded in p5js that convey pregnant time–with its sensations of inevitability, vulnerability, and physical entrapment. Written in Caballero’s signature straightforward style, this text forms part of her prize-winning manuscript MAMMAL.

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Mammal One

It is done:
the child grows
silent as a new world.

I must consider it
when I eat.
Eat more.

Again.
I am thirsty,
again.

It is the baby:
already telling me
what to do.
Mammal One,, Installation view, Gray Area, San Francisco, 2024