[…] Three drops of blood plopped out of his left nostril, hardened instantly in the brittle air and lay before his eyes on the prayer-mat, transformed into rubies. Lurching back until he knelt with his head once more upright, he found that the tears which had sprung to his eyes had solidified, too; and at that moment, as he brushed diamonds contemptuously from his lashes, he resolved never again to kiss earth for any god or man. […]
Salman Rushdie, “Midnight’s Children,” 1981
offseen publications:
Substrate
Substrate is an underlying base layer, a nourishing and carrying platform, a surface of life that both enables things and gives birth to the new. It is a foundation that serves both as a medium and a site for events.
“TechDiumMory (The MORY Part)”
In this exhibition, Zhang Ting reimagines “Xiaoming,” a recurring fictional figure in Chinese educational textbooks, workbooks, and reading materials, through the visual language of Wit & Humour (幽默大师), a widely circulated popular comic magazine in China. Xiaoming does not refer
