PRECARIOUS STRAITS WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE TEXT LAUNCH:

‘I like stony beaches.’ Zarina Muhammad from The White Pube

“In 2050 I will be 56 years old, the same age that my mother is now. I think I will look like her. I will move through the sun bleached walkway of the shopping centre. Out through the glass fronted arch, I will meet the ghost of my dear friend. Karl Marx will be waiting for me at the new coastline: the brand new stony beach. It will be cold, crisp; the sun will be shining and I will blink at him from behind dark sunglasses. He will stand still; like a stoic, like an anguished hero. I will look silently out at the waves as they roll in over the stones, fizzing out into heavy foam at our feet.”

Read a PDF version of Zarina’s text HERE or listen to the audio below.

ZARINA MUHAMMAD (b.1994, London) is a writer and an art critic @ the white pube (thewhitepube.com // @thewhitepube). She writes about exhibitions, institutions, food and other little bits in between. cancer sun/aries moon/sagittarius ascendant. 'intellectual charlatan', 'sociopathic pseudo-critic', leading proponent of 'The Philosophy of the Warm Tummy' & cowboy in the art world.