FELTDARK: FREE LIFE, EVERYTHING FINE - JELENA LUISE (DE)

Free life, everything fine started off as hunting down the feeling of impossibility of ‘arriving’ at freedom and the perpetual circularity of trying to achieve it.

Horses ‘down south', as well as the unseen passengers of a car enter a Pocket-sized freedom - a temporal fix, that in the grand scheme of things is no fix at all but in this blip of time it is (and this still counts). 

A nod to the perhaps foolish attempt at fabricating this feeling, the title takes from a gifted tote bag of a pharmaceutical company that read ‘fine life, everything fine’. 

Speaking of an implied freedom that never arrives, the conversation repeals geographical markers and is carried out in a vagueness that refuses to name specifics. But such refusal of geography still assumes a common consensus of what the seemingly innocent words such as “down” or “south” mean in terms of eurocentrism. A certain longing for freedom, of expanse and means to move is put into a perpetually unfulfilled wish by the cyclicality of the car wash that never seems to begin or end. In place of redemptive conclusions, one is presented with an endlessly looping drying and cleaning ritual as well as a herd of set free horses somewhere in a hot and dry expanse. Yet the brief freedom that the narrated animals experience is probably cut short by the brutality of this very same landscape.