Collage

Hannah Song

This collage is a representation of a poem by Natalie Diaz, The First Water is the Body. The collage is a representation of the destruction we have caused to our planet and the attachment we have as human beings to nature that we must not forget.

The river is my sister—I am its daughter.
It is my hands when I drink from it,
my own eye when I am weeping,
and my desire when I ache like a yucca bell
in the night. The river says, Open your mouth to me, and I will make you more.

Because even a river can be lonely, even a river a can die of thirst.

I am both-the river and it's vessel.

It maps me alluvium. A net of moon colored fish. I've flashed through it like copper wire.