Studio HermiH was formed in 2023. HermiH is the name of the forthcoming book, created by Naomi Lewis and Charlie Cattrall, whose inception came during the covid lockdown. Their creative collaboration was born in an artists lab in Brixton, where over many years they built a container for the generation of work, rooted in the principles of freedom and the unknown, always practicing at the edge of what felt comfortable, a commitment to which remains in their work today. Cattrall is a Filmaker and Actor, known for his film Titus which received 2 BIFA Nominations (Including the Douglas Hickox award for best new director). Updates on publication of HermiH, illustrated by the artist Nooka Shepherd will be found here. Excerpt from the text shown below.
The drowning dream
Sunk,
In the morass of Him
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Where is she?
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There is movement together across an unseen terrain
And sweat
Heat in the water
Blinkered into one conjoined sight
They look
See the sea
‘The sea the sea the sea’
The drawing in of She
Death is She
Life is He
Blinkered
Moss beneath the surface
She and He
Into the blind seeing of skin
Feeling of flesh
Sweat
Life is dissolved into Death
She is in the dying
He is in the living
Of the strung up life,
The haunted breath
The living noose
Muscular tide
Failing flesh
Sweat.
Give me the summer to love,
Drowning,
Torn from darkness,
Monkey wants the birth of death
Torn from the horse
Thrown into life
Bring me darkness
Bring me to the place beneath
Not this barrelling insult of life
Strange vector of games
The game of man
Where is She?