{"id":3313,"date":"2024-11-12T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littleblock.co.uk\/matt\/?page_id=3313"},"modified":"2025-04-14T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:30:18","slug":"a-sofa-in-a-canal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/littleblock.co.uk\/matt\/a-sofa-in-a-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sofa In a Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Inspired by Iohanna Nicenboim<\/span><\/a>‘s posthuman stories I resurrected some work from 2022 where I observed and thought about a sofa that was floating around in a canal near my home.

Whilst objects being in canals are nothing new, few of them float around and I do not think I have ever seen a sofa. There was something charming about it moving around the canal and having other non-humans sit on it. I was so engaged that I was a little sad when it was finally hooked by someone and removed.

I experimented in this short piece with using the second person, resulting a conversation between the sofa and you the reader. This included projecting or tell you the emotions you are having, which is an interesting tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspired by Iohanna Nicenboim<\/span><\/a>‘s posthuman stories I resurrected some work from 2022 where I observed and thought about a sofa that was floating around in a canal near my home.

Whilst objects being in canals are nothing new, few of them float around and I do not think I have ever seen a sofa. There was something charming about it moving around the canal and having other non-humans sit on it. I was so engaged that I was a little sad when it was finally hooked by someone and removed.

I experimented in this short piece with using the second person, resulting a conversation between the sofa and you the reader. This included projecting or tell you the emotions you are having, which is an interesting tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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