{"product_id":"cracked-shells-by-dimitra-charamandas","title":"Cracked Shells by Dimitra Charamandas","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProse poetry and drawings by Dimitra Charamandas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn a spring-like, far-too-warm January morning, I happened upon the magic humpback snail between the pebbles of a small cove. The sea at the gulf stood still as an inland body of water, no \u003c\/i\u003emeltemi\u003ci\u003e to ripple its surface…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24-page zine by Swiss-Greek artist Dimitra Charamandas which, through prose poetry fragments and ink drawings, tells of a day spent probing a Greek shoreline’s “little inlets,” i.e. “a collection of potential openings; a small crack, an injury; the result of discharging energy, the rupture of a previously protective shell.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCracked Shells\u003c\/i\u003e establishes the presence of Dimitra sketchbooking on the threshold of sea-slapped slabbed Grecian ground seared and buckling while she meditates on punctured chelonian carapaces, humanity as emigrant panspermia cast across the cosmos, and the slackening blue hour “when even that which is carved in stone ungrips its unambiguity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boredwolves.substack.com\/p\/dimitra-charamandas-reads-from-cracked\"\u003eHear Dimitra read an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eCracked Shells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, recorded in Corfu with the sustained choral backing of incalculable crickets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bored Wolves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47875233284426,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/BBE9EEFC-4E24-407B-869E-34E6AE30CBC1.webp?v=1712497398","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/cracked-shells-by-dimitra-charamandas","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}