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"SUMMA" is a book version of a joint (in fact, multimedia) project by the writer Yuriy Izdryk and the journalist Yevhenia Nesterovych. The attempt to join the syncretic-synthetic "theory of everything" was aimed, among other things, at creating a kind of reference book "for those who accidentally came to this planet". "SUMMA is this guide, as well as a synopsis of the entire project.
Shut myself up in Chernivtsi for three weeks in November. Listening to an empty apartment, watching films, making coffee, changing the water in the boiler, fighting with the heating. Smoking fragrant pipes and eating juicy pears. Grow a newly purchased juniper in a flowerpot and take pictures of the sun's shadows on the parquet. Watching old important films, and reviewing old diagrams. Wandering through the gates in search of filterless cigarettes and rolling tobacco. Find shops with good tea and places with delicious sweets. Maintain the regime and open no more than one mezzanine of your clothes. Feel how the air gets colder in the evening, and how the noise in the neighbour's kitchen is building up behind the wall. Share the keys to the apartment equally, and open the door together, with two keys at the same time.
Hanging out in Chernivtsi for three weeks in November. Share space, warmth, food, smokes. To learn to listen and talk. To learn to be together without infringing on the freedom of the partner. To get closer without getting closer. To approach without disturbing the balance. To mine the gold of pears, the silver of mirrors, the density of a monolith. To balance on the edge of insight and prostration. To study the layout of the passageways, thinking about an escape plan. Escape and return immediately. Listen to the truths voiced by noisy and invisible neighbours. Listen to each other's increasingly eloquent silence. To share the keys to the apartment equally, and to open the door synchronously, with two keys at a time.
