Laura Cocks
A Pearl in the Jaw

A Pearl in the Jaw is a prayer in the physical process of release and return—a collapsable space between intimacy, introversion, and internal worlds and what utterances become boiled down to purity as we shrink ourselves. Our own kernels of truth, sharpened and shined as we hold onto ourselves in periods or spaces of friction. The nacre offers calming, glowing warmth, and also refractive possibilities endless in scope. Structures that interfere both constructively and destructively with light: to speak pearl is to ask for water. To speak pearl is to understand interwoven scales of time, to pull lace through milk, to chew on interference. 

Cover art by Hiroyuki Murakami