Humanimal A Project For Future Children

To my surprise I found the Humanimal Reading to be interesting .
I couldnt help comparing it to Incubation A Space For Monsters. Both books were graphic and colorful with a strong current of pain running through the pages.
Bhanu gave the background from which the story derived and that was quite interesting. She had the opportunity to travel with a film crew to the jungles of India to document the story of two orphaned girls, raised by wolves and reffered to as wolf girls.
Her words transferred the pain of the girls being both human and animal..... thus humanimal, no more human than animal. There was grafting (painful), described in the statement : " I slip my arms into the sleeves of your shirt. I slip my arms into yours, to become 4 limbed. "
The horrendous childhood of the wolf girls was intertwined with the brutal suffering Bhanu's Father endured as a child. Her Father died in his 50's and the doctor said it was a miracle that he endured that long. The condition of her Father's body told a harsh story at least in part. Just as the wolf girls with supinated arms revealed some of the pain they experienced.
I enjoyed some of the comments made after the reading, and I'll mention 2 of them. She said " Language glows / grows under cover as you change, multi layers are created. Words shift / modulate . "
Bhanu also mentioned a techinque called "vertical moment". This is when your hand lifts off the page, the moment before your hand comes down again creates linguistic space.