Bearly Itch
2025
Poetry / Translation Apparatus
Chapbook, A5, 36 pp.
Poetry / Translation Apparatus
Chapbook, A5, 36 pp.
Bearly Itch explores how translation can operate as a form of misreading, delay, and incomplete transmission. Beginning from my grandfather’s experience working as a telegraph technician in Hanoi, the project folds telegraphic syntax into bodily and linguistic experience. Equations such as "China = Holland" and "China = Failed Child + Love" register identity as something that can never be fully delivered.
Bath Notes (COPY.CAT) turns to a different archive—a vanished mixed-sex sauna economy, an anonymous text, a half-remembered pop song—where phrases such as "touch.flow=good.hard" appear less as statements than as signals that never fully arrive. The Vanishing Point moves between intimacy, illness, displacement, and the gradual loss of language.
The oscillation between barely and bearly becomes a recurring fault in the work: expression remains both impossible and unavoidable.
Translation here is not a transparent passage between languages. It is something worn and sensitive, close to the skin, continuing through error.
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Bearly Itch 探索翻译如何成为一种误读、延迟与不完整的传递。项目从我祖父在河内担任 电报技术人员的经历出发，将电报式句法折叠进身体经验与语言经验之中：诸如
"China=Holland" 和 "China=Failed Child+Love" 这样的等式，将身份记录为一种始终无法被完整送达之物。
《Bath Notes (COPY.CAT)》转向另一套档案：一个已消失的男女混合桑拿经济、一篇匿名文本、一首只被依稀记得的流行歌曲。在这里，诸如 "touch.flow=good.hard" 这样的短语， 与其说是陈述，不如说更像是永远无法真正抵达的信号。《The Vanishing Point》游移于亲密关系、疾病、迁徙／错置，以及语言逐渐流失之间。
"barely" 与 "bearly" 之间的摆动，成为作品中反复出现的一处故障：表达既不可能， 又无法避免。
在这里，翻译并不是语言之间透明无碍的通道。它更像某种被穿戴、被磨损、具有敏感性 的东西，贴近皮肤，并在错误之中持续发生。
《Bath Notes (COPY.CAT)》转向另一套档案：一个已消失的男女混合桑拿经济、一篇匿名文本、一首只被依稀记得的流行歌曲。在这里，诸如 "touch.flow=good.hard" 这样的短语， 与其说是陈述，不如说更像是永远无法真正抵达的信号。《The Vanishing Point》游移于亲密关系、疾病、迁徙／错置，以及语言逐渐流失之间。
"barely" 与 "bearly" 之间的摆动，成为作品中反复出现的一处故障：表达既不可能， 又无法避免。
在这里，翻译并不是语言之间透明无碍的通道。它更像某种被穿戴、被磨损、具有敏感性 的东西，贴近皮肤，并在错误之中持续发生。