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Is it possible to archive the invisible symptoms of an illness? Is the archive emotional? Emmalea Russo's
Wave Archive moves between essay and poetry while also pondering the mind-body connection and the unreliability of thought patterns and histories. Here, Russo invokes her own experiences with seizures, photographs and art-making, archival and indexical processes, brain waves, and the very personal need to document and store while simultaneously questioning the reliability of memory and language. Drawing upon the history of epilepsy in both ancient and modern brain treatments,
Wave Archive disrupts and restores the archive over and over again, exploring the very edges of consciousness.
About the author
EMMALEA RUSSO is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living at the New Jersey coast. Her work has appeared in
BOMB and
The Brooklyn Rail and she has been an Artist-in-Residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of one previous book,
G (2018). She lives in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey.
