Wasteland

WASTELAND charts a prolonged involvement and love affair with an abandoned apartment complex in Southeast Asia called The Flowers, and the swampland surrounding it. For three years the author used this space on a daily basis to confront death and solitude, and engage with the physical and mental effects of chronic illness. Over this long period he wrote manuscripts for two books inside the location and developed a feverish sensorial attachment to The Flowerss which eventually degenerated into the sort of sexual neurosis for which the complex had originally provided an antidote.