On the edge of the village, too far for the water to reach, two mummies lay on plastic sun loungers, hoping and waiting for a glimpse of death in the sky. It was dark, but the moon was full and high.
"When I was little, you told me the stars were dead people," the younger mummy said accusingly. Then excitedly, "There's one! Did you see it?" Death lights up for a microsecond.
Don't blink.
The older mummy missed it.
"I thought the sky was filled with ghosts looking down at me."
On the edge of the village, beyond the reach of the bin men, the mummies remember Fiore who lived in the barn below, a second home for the summer months. The village square housed the first. But he was rarely there.
"When Fiore died, who inherited everything?" the younger mummy asked. Long ago cancer killed his wife, then his daughter did it to herself. "And another!" Ephemeral, mortal, gone.
Never put bricks in your eyes.  
The younger mummy smiled. "I think it must have been the housekeeper. She and Fiore were close."
Far from the men who grabbed the older mummy, or the women who took against her after her own husband died, they lay there and waited for death to arrive. But too much light spoiled their sight.
"Why wouldn't he eat Berlusconi, his badly behaved goat?" wondered the younger mummy. Then she sat up and cried, "Look! That one lasted forever."
The planet's demise was fantastic, so the mummy made a wish.
And listen.
Both mummies lay still. Though she kept quiet, the older mummy thought, "Because he loved him."
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this family too is a lament and a celebration. Image and verse acknowledge the entanglement of past, present and future, as well as financial, political and organic systems. Expressions of fleeting personal moments point to the vastness of existence, cultural structures and natural phenomena. I made it with the ever-present recognition of my Czech/Slovakian heritage, a childhood in South Africa, adulthood in England, and an ongoing relationship with Ferentillo, Italy. It is the third project I have made in the Umbrian village and surrounding area (2020).

this family too was available to buy as a zine but has sold out. However, prints are can be purchased here.