The Western was hunched over an encyclopedia, raptly scanning a timeline.
The etymology of the word invasion mostly suggests stability across thousands of years. It is a corridor of belligerence slicing through chaotic time. Going back, far back, origins seem to simplify into chunky basics. All of the overtones and connotations of experience are rolled back to the uncomplicated balls of dirt we used to toss around, as words. Go in.
Text commissioned for an artist catalogue that was never published.
PDF: Michael-EDDY_entry-on-invasion_2019
published March 17, 2020