Camille Usher

Five things that shaped Camille Usher
Song: Burn, Jorja Smith
Book: The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
Film: Clueless, Amy Heckerling
Trip: Yellowknife, NWT 2024 and Venice, IT 2024
Advice: Words are waves. You learn to swim from the seduction of a wave that wraps you in foam. Words have the rhythm of the sea and the call of the obscure: Come to me in search of what you know not, the blue called out to you. Luck and a coastal guard saved you from a definite detachment from the song of words. The jellyfish continued to sting you, but you never stopped loving the sea, not realizing that it was the source of primordial rhythm.” (Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence [English translation]