You Subtracted From Me - 5 pretentious poetical parodies exploring solitude

This series of 5 short poems explores the theme of solitude and was inspired by periods of isolation at home while my family visited with relatives abroad. The narrator arrives back at the family home alone, a house that was once filled with love and the sounds of a young child is now empty and silent. Over the course of the next few days and weeks his imagination, sense of loss, and inability to deal with simple domesticities collide in a surreal dreamlike silliness that threatens to unhinge his humanity. To accompany these poems I asked the artist and documentary filmmaker Momentori  Madrassi to make a series of arty films which were narrated by Klaus Vankerman (think Werner Herzog). A sparse improvised piano soundtrack was additionally provided by Bernardo Boniffe. Unfortunately Momentori never completed the fifth film, as he walked out of the project after a blazing argument with me when I suggested the final film should include a sequence where I as buried alive in a coffin full of baked beans!”