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Adda Farcus

ISSUE 13

ANEMONE
PABLO V. CAZARES
ADDA FARCUS
FARIHA
CRYSTAL ODELLE
CODY SOOY
T.R. STEELE
JACKIE VONDROSS
detailed textured cracked wall surface
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  • Psychoterratic Sculpture IV & XVIII

    Adda Farcus
    Psychoterratic Sculpture IV
    Cormac McCarthy’s hands1, plastic2
    2023

    1 this is so big
    we can only see
    the edges
              toothpaste
              with 10% more
              and plutonium’s
              24,100 year
              half-life
    their effects:
    songs and songs
    about the last glacier
    hands that 
    know, point 

    always changing always
    edging clogging 
    up the works
    “less a thing than
    the trace of a movement”

    a saw
    blood

    2 numb as warm
    as the room it’s in
    molded anything
    “stuff of alchemy”
    island-gyre
    boiling
    ocean patch

    hyperobject’s
    effect (quick-
    change artistry)
    and cause
              “half-god,
              half-robot”

    fingers tap
    a mold-injected
    score
    indifferent
    to staves
    everything
    deadened

    Adda Farcus
    Psychoterratic Sculpture XVIII
    Tyvek1, invasive tree2, blood3
    2025

    1 you’re keen to plastic sheets
    houselayered to keep the climate out
    keep your bear mace 
    keychain keep a lock-pick set
    2 lobed paper mulberry 
    with pale leaf undersides
    and royal ability to cover
              colonizable 
    disturbed areas with
    males shedding
    injurious pollen
    waterlogged
    windblown & 
    70 feet tall
    branches cross
              sketched
    logos for death
    metal bands
    3 more corpse- 
    paint more
    blood baths

Adda Farcus is an activist, artist, curator, feminist, organizer, poet, quasi-linguist, teacher, and writer. They make work about the emotional ramifications of climate change and injustice. Farcus received their MFA in visual art from the University of Illinois at Chicago, they participate in the Climate Psychological Alliance, and organize with their local teachers union. Farcus is the co-director of Lease Agreement, an alternative and nomadic curatorial project, and they are the Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida.