{"product_id":"bedlam-by-cat-h","title":"Bedlam, by Cat H","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBedlam\u003c\/em\u003e is a survey of memory, destruction, and wounds. Moments are recollected as opaque reflections, unreachable and inescapable. It is the summation of replaying memories until they become abstracted into fragments of emotion. \u003cem\u003eBedlam\u003c\/em\u003e explores the forms that love can inhabit, from heartbreak to salvation. It is brimming with notions of what it means to be alone, and how to share aloneness with another. Relationships are collected as ephemeral highs, and a state of denial accompanies their imminent change. In the aftermath, \u003cem\u003eBedlam\u003c\/em\u003e explores how to cope, for better or worse, with the feeling of abandonment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe self is explored as a dangerous force, which can implode at any second. Concepts of uncontrollable desire, rage, and desperation are strong themes in the work. Bedlam places the reader on a tightrope and offers up how it feels to be suspended, awaiting a fall, and suffocated by vertigo. It asks what measures one will take to avoid falling, and what aspects of themselves they could lose in the process. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy and large, \u003cem\u003eBedlam\u003c\/em\u003e is an elucidation of what it means to be alive in a world void of meaning. The visceral recollection of the effect this has is represented through descriptions of physical pain. The mind and body are strung together and continually fight against this marriage. As a result, they are both left to fester in their wounds.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat H is an emerging artist based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her work is focused on notions of home, safety, and destruction. As a student of philosophy, she employs existentialist concepts blanketed in raw emotion. Written in stream-of-consciousness style, her work analyzes what it feels like to be stuck in a moment in time, with no choice but to attempt to elucidate it. With a background in sculpture, her descriptive style concentrates on ideas made to feel physical. Her current body of work explores heartbreak and betraying oneself, all in a visceral fashion. The body is frequently referenced, and frequently injured, representing how tangible inner pain can feel. Overall, her work documents living with borderline personality disorder and managing chronic pain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543226826930,"sku":"BEDLCH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543226859698,"sku":"BEDLCHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/Bedlam2front.png?v=1780354246","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/bedlam-by-cat-h","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}