Lala Drona was expected to perform at Paris Lit Up’s magazine release party last week. Instead, Drone Kesabe, an assistant to Lala Drona, was sent to stand in for Lala in her absence.
Once called to the stage, Drone Kesabe explained to the audience that Lala Drona had been held up during her art research. She stated that Lala Drona had been conducting art experiments to find the perfect colour, a color too strong for the human eye, a deadly color: “…Essentially a colour that kills” she said. Lala Drona and her team had some sort of breakthrough, and so she was unable to come to the event.
Drone Kesabe then began to read Lala’s poem to the audience in a low and airy voice:
(Creature of Habit)
These creatures look for the familiar in the unfamiliar. Tell me, why do you put on shoes? Only to walk with blind feet. You process a new place based on past processes. The past with its conquering mentality—in your mind—time cannibalizes itself, past taking present. Is there a reason you can only see back in time, but not forward? Creatures of habit, only see what they know, and this is how I come to you “th-th-th-th-th-th.”
Repetition, monotony, boredom, commitment, dedication, loyalty, rigor: you play me over and over, conjuring my face in every note of that song—the song that was playing when the Thing happened.
I’ll stay with you and tell you what to do, so the Thing doesn’t happen again, you think—
–And I let you know that your instincts are shit, listen to me, I was there, and I’ll keep you safe.
Creatures of habit, based on a fact, based on a television, based on a story…this only serves to take me with you—in your mind—.
Perched on your back making nests of knots in your shoulders, making my way to your belly—Let me stay here a bit while you recognize the pattern of that familiar ceiling in the walls of this unfamiliar venue. The same pattern of where the Thing happened, when you had no control, I came, that’s where we met the first time.
Watch the new patterns, registered by old ones, process, tilt you head back further, further, thaaat’s it. “th-th-th-th-th” stop breathing now because the past doesn’t breathe, and we never left that moment—in your mind—I’m here with you, when no one else will be. And I’ll never leave you, not if you keep looking…looking for our familiar in the unfamiliar. Creature of habit.
Poem “Creatures of Habit” by Lala Drona © 2019
The launch party went off without a hitch while artists, poets and creative-types mixed and popped off celebratory champagne. As for the work Lala Drona is developing behind the scenes, our investigative journalists haven’t seemed to be able to get beyond Drone Kesabe’s statement at the PLU launch party.
Based on a Fact caught up with art trend expert Valerie Cogie who weighed in on the situation. “If we take a look at Lala Drona’s paintings, it’s quite obvious that she’s chosen to express through the grayscale. As stated in previous interviews, this was due to her reaction to traveling the world. She stopped seeing the world in binary oppositions: black/white, right/wrong… and started paying more attention to the in-betweens…the grays. Perhaps, she has reached a point where she wants to start incorporating colour into her painting universe. I’d rather not speculate further on the psychological implications of this.”
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