Materials: carnation petals, poetry pieces “While It’s Happening” By Deborah Landau and “Radishes” By Ange Mlinko published in The New Yorker.

Suddenly, summer! This piece came together almost on its own, driven by its own energy, rhythm, and order/disorder, during the first days of summer in 2025—mild days of late May and June, of long bicycle rides under the towering trees of Diagonal towards Pedralbes Parc at dusk, or along the sea in Barceloneta, when the beach was still peaceful and the sky golden blue and silent. During those days, the weather was gentle and balmy, and summer unfolded itself, full of aching possibility and longing: for freedom, enjoyment, new worlds, new versions of ourselves. 

This piece is a reflection of that feeling—the burst of possibility and elation that comes with standing at the cusp of the new season. What will summer bring? The poetry snippets capture some of that, beautifully: “topaz, turquoise, or tourmaline”, “to look at the stars”, “stretch the truth”, maybe summer is “like a language”, “a scraped knee”, “a seduction”, “farewell”.