Peery Sloan
SENSORY ROOM







2024





If the Labor Room was trying to undo something stuck in me, the Sensory Room was asking: what's underneath?

What happens when we move slowly enough to notice? Not as productivity's opposite, I'm suspicious of binaries like that but as a refusal. An experiment in being present without purpose.

Stations for attending: crushing leaves between fingers, watching light shift through windows, breathing in unfamiliar scents. Small acts my body already knows how to do.

I wanted to find ways of being that capitalism hasn't colonized yet. But I'm not sure they exist purely or that I can access them cleanly. 

Maybe it’s practicing the refusal and noticing when the voice says "what's this for?" and staying anyway.
This room held the question, not the answer.
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