Zoë Skoulding
The Building Constructed from its Own Fall
jezik: angleščina
prevodov:
nemščina (Das aus seinem Zusammenbruch errichtete Gebäude), češčina (Budova vystavěná z vlastního pádu), francoščina (L’immeuble bâti dans l’élan même de sa chute), norveščina (Bygningen reist av sitt eget fall) The Building Constructed from its Own Fall
Our feet drag with the effort of
holding it all up. Or is this
weight the way it holds us
down? It begins with an echo,
then a footprint in rubble,
dust gathered into clouds
that churn into a storm
before the ground unsettles,
loose bricks flying up
in the repulsion of forces –
upper storeys rocket
from billows of cement
bound in the blast as walls
heave themselves together,
steel unbuckles, cracks
in the concrete disappear.
Hard to say whether this is
destruction or creation
as the building rises to a tremor,
the shape of itself shifting
into true, the core straight
above its foundation –
a split second of balance
before the fuse lit in a place
that used to be the future.
