Sewer Agglomeration (demo - 29/05/26 version) No. I / ::: excremental poetics of non-human thriving :::
Sewer Agglomeration Labyrinthine dark. A human constructed network of arched brick and mouldering concrete. Turbid and vile waters sluice and gurgle through the depths. A representation of the individual human unconscious, magnified and realised: home to the abject, discarded, absent and wilfully forgotten. Underground, in the absence of light, the living and the dead teem. Rodent bodies scurry alongside invertebrate, mollusc, bacterial, fungal and algal life; a chthonic ecosystem, thriving upon the unwanted and cast-out. Churning in iterative generational succession, these bodies have adapted to their natural environment: itself a mimicry of the caverns and tunnels in the rock of Earth-Terra herself. Down here, the remains of these dwellers mingle with those of the discarded human detritus. In one dank corner of an unremarkable tunnel, a snag has formed, a small dam comprised of amassed rodent bones, a meshwork that has become a scaffold supporting a substrate of discarded materi...