140 x 192mm, 32 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2022

It got so dark is a book about pleasure’s recession. “blacked out when I grabbed the chop//it got so dark” – Rio Da Yung OG, but dreaming might not stop when violence starts, or better not. That’s why the tone is so fried – it’s called trying to maintain.

Benjamin Krusling’s nuanced graphical grammar is ecstatic in its quiet powers, and its scaffold of structural freedom finds tender affinity with the work’s overarching action—experimental reportage on explorations of an expansive interior landscape cracked open with softness. Throughout—heralding interiority and form—are a flickering bouquet parade of the unpaired insisting on their wholeness as is, insisting on their celebration as self. The work is ripe with fracturing’s urgency to show the ways of new wholeness, and blackness shines everywhere like slivers of light.

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