Fossil Poetry

A Year in Mediation

Yi-Ling: Since our last Fossil, I finally returned to Beijing. In August, I did two weeks of hotel quarantine. In September, I stepped gingerly back…

Dec 30, 2020 • 

Sophie

June 2020

March 2020

Fossil Poetry: Quarantine

A special, longer edition from Hong Kong and London.

Mar 21, 2020 • 

Sophie

February 2020

Viral

In the new year, Yi-Ling and Sophie mull on things that go viral, both online and off. YL: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Blah blah. So it…

Feb 15, 2020 • 

Sophie

December 2019

Fossil Poetry #10: Firewall

In this Fossil Poetry, Yi-Ling reflects on life within the Firewall, and Sophie considers the illusions of different forms of digital security. Happy…

Dec 6, 2019 • 

Sophie

September 2019

Fossil Poetry #9: Memory

“American Landscape,” John Chiara “Memory” is a word we use a lot—in our personal lives and our digital ones. This week, we’re thinking about what it…

Sep 30, 2019 • 

Sophie

August 2019

Scroll

“Book from the Sky",” Xu Bing At the tail end of the summer, we’re back with Fossil Poetry, writing about the word “scroll” & how the digital version…

Aug 26, 2019 • 

Sophie

June 2019

April 2019

Fossil Poetry #7: Traffic

The digital and physical dystopias of traffic.

Apr 29, 2019 • 

Sophie

March 2019

Fossil Poetry #6: DNA

Hello from London (Sophie) and Beijing (Yi-Ling). We’re back after a bit of a hiatus—it was winter!—and here to meditate on “DNA,” both the metaphor and…

Mar 7, 2019 • 

Sophie

December 2018

Fossil Poetry #5: Ping

In the last hours of 2018—or, if you’re elsewhere in the world, the early hours of 2019— we’re pinging you with a reflection on the plethora of pings…

Dec 31, 2018 • 

Sophie

November 2018

Fossil Poetry #4: Surfing

We’re back. On a nerve-wracking, nail-biting and cold November day in the United States, we have a small bit of nostalgia for summer and the early…

Nov 6, 2018 • 

Sophie