Burning the grass that wouldn’t serve

Kurdish celebrations reimagined by John Aulich.

"As they broke through the surface (first in tufts through cracks, and then as though they were holding the whole edifice together), I weaponized them. 'Everything's been recruited... there was one killed by coffee or one killed by pins, they were killed by heroin, petrol, chainsaws, hairspray, bleach, foxgloves, the smell was where we were burning the grass that wouldn't serve.' - Caryl Churchill, Far Away."

Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest