String figures

Abstract

This poem references string figures as a model for cultural theory, a collective way of thinking and being made between many fingers, hands, people(s), and species. I was heavily inspired by Donna Haraway's Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthuluscene, and a dear friend with whom I practiced making our own string figures. From Haraway herself: "We require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become - with each other or not at all."