Kailey Agoo

My Holy Bible

“Perhaps the bones refuse to renter the world of relatives, family, and property, the world of name and measure, in which skulls are forced to speak of race and rank instead of love and decomposition. Why should they want to reenter an order that sustained and strengthened itself over their dead bodies? Who had to execute them in the first place to keep the realm of belonging, faith, and knowledge intact? Why should they want to return from the world of naked matter in which they freely mix with the dust of the universe?”

Working in response to an excerpt from The Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, I navigate the death of self through systems of control. The Bible and other religious texts are granted authority, but at what cost? Printing Steyerl’s excerpt within the Bible alongside imagery from a Catholic Filipino coloring book, I am giving two systems of control the ability to work in harmony.