Paradise
Pressure-washed text, excerpted from Octavia’ E. Butler’s Parable Series (1993-1998)
Inscribed on the pavement in front of the District Hall in Harmonie Park, Antwerp
2023
Visible when wet:
The child in each of us
Knows paradise.
Paradise is home.
Home as it was
Or home as it should have been.
2nd edition of Publiek Park.
Photos ©Michiel De Cleene
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