make a wish

The genie of the "Aladdin and the magic lamp" tale, that familiar evil. The genie's hands extirpate themselves from their confinement and emerge. The paradox of the familiar strangeness that brings hope as well as transgression. That which was perceived as pleasant becomes disturbing. The disturbing strangeness of that which we repress that finds its runaway out of the lamp. Reversing. Marta Santos, December 2022