Rehearsing a Disappointment
Fuyuko Akiyoshi >

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Drawing connections between how we train ourselves to speak in preparation before a social situation and how pet budgies are taught to speak by rote, Rehearsing a Disappointment by Fuyuko Akiyoshi joins in dot-to-dot fashion strings of random words that line the shape of three birds rendered in child-like playfulness. Meaning is found for those who look for it through arbitrary connections, while the quirks of language and self-effacement are depicted in upside down bird imagery and a line hell bent on self-erasure.