cosmos/cosmetic
the metal lead, terms of endearment, details
When cut, the metal lead is silver-blue, lunar. Rewatching Terms of Endearment (1983) for the first time since I was a kid, I thought about the metal which in alchemy the world/work is said to begin and end in and with. Confetti, my new book which I’ve been working on, on and off for about five years, also attempts to begin and end in lead. The metal le…