The Kakofonie 006

ISBN: 978-3-943196-05-4

Text: Theis Ørntoft

Image: Francisco Queimadela 

Edited and fabricated by John Holten and Broken Dimanche Press

The latest issue of the ever-changing The Kakofonie Journal of European Art and Literature is a declarative work of the visual and poetic about end times. Taking the form of a parasitic wrapping, issue 006 evokes the works of Christo as much as it does Epstein’s unrealized wish for Sgt. Pepper’s to come wrapped in a bag. It is at both concealing but also revealing, a wrapped opening to another world entire. It comes with issue five of Sand Literary Journal as a limited edition brownpaper covering wtih ethanol transfer.

Francisco Queimadela’s evocation of the Jormungand, the serpent from the Edda myths that eats until it grows to encircle the world and eats itself, is the perfect match for this double act of growth and cancelling. Queimadela’s work is from a series of perfectly poised renderings of mythologies and compliments perfectly the dense simplicity of the exciting young Danish poet Theis Ørntoft. His two line poem, written especially for this issue of The Kakofonie, furthers the theme of a world slowly turning toward its own demise. But again thanks to the twofold act of perceiving this issue in dual directions – historical or prophetic, declarative or concealing – the words of Ørntoft can in fact be read to have solace if not optimism.