title WHO ARE YOU
artist YAKOE NICOLE
duration 03:45 MIN
size 287,310,230 BYTES
resolution 1920x1080PX
Yakoe is five letters. A combination of alphanumeric characters followed by a space. A piece of information whose everyday life, thoughts, and emotions are embedded in the HTML of a website.
Nicole is nowhere to be found. She is not French. She is not a surname. She is not even, not always, or not necessarily, a she.
Directions of use: Run your naked fingertip gently over the cracked surface of a shattered iPhone screen. Picture a lipgloss spill on sticky fingers. Slow-mo hairplay in close-up angles. Saliva waterfall. Don’t avoid eye contact. Hold onto a memory that is fragile enough to dissolve into thin air. For best results, let yourself be swept into the flow.
December 5, 2017
Put on some lipstick
just to smoke
Tights for days
supernatural strangers
yin and yang shirts
poorly buttoned
bowl-cuts and pickles on tables
she dreams only in green
eyelids the same colour
as her lips invert.
Balls for pillows
light switch on and off
like waving hello from a hole
curtain baby
songs for no one
tooth presents for kids.
One second on her
until all this fades
frame by frame
gold insides, mined.
Gloves to your waist
she danced all the way
to vermouth
i seek her origins
kiss where your ribs begin
ufos for knees
trees like ginger roots
like algae nightmares
turner skies
b-boy hands
she leads the march
that secret lover
her undercover orchestra
sleeps only on silver.