Pet Spotlight & Soundtrack: Mina

pet spotlight!

For all of autumn, MMPP is spotlighting our favorite pets: real or imaginary, yours or a wild one. We want to know your pet's artist statement AND their favorite songs. Send us all the deets so the world can get to know your brilliant buddy!

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spotlight on: mina

Mina came with the house. She showed up soon after we moved in here. Through a hole in the concrete by the office entrance. A pet portal that follows us. Climbing the kitchen window and peering inside. Wild kitten whiskers. She likes to burrow into the living room cushions and sleep the day away, dreaming of past lives. Dreams of rabbits in the tall grass. She runs the long hallway in a peculiar gallop. Annoying her brother into playing. Her swat is vicious and she is afraid of no creature or man. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sleep often and for long periods of time.

Sleep more than you are awake.

Let the dreams fill you out.

Your bones and organs are tired.

Vivid colors.

You are soft like the moss and will live forever.
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You are the smallest prick of light in the orange curtains.

Tender.

Listen to the shadows.

Listen to the ash tree.

Your ear to the leaf.

Get your paws in there.

Learn to be quiet.

Learn to be quiet and still.

Write.

As a scream.

A heartbeat is an explosion outward.

A thousand years is nothing.

To longing.

What it feels what feels what feels

At home.
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I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins 
Sun in My Mouth - Björk 
Nosferatu - Air Remix by the Flower Pistols
Moody - ESG 
What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson 
Birds - Electrelane 
Girl Like You - Bluphoria 
Endless alleyways - Zephaniah 
Houdini - Kate Bush
Make 1,2 - Arthur Russell
Sleep - Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions 
I Was Young When I Left Home - Bob Dylan

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