Mid Gaussian: Flatten the Hierarchy (ePub + PDF)

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This debut collection of poetry and art from Cakelin Fable invites readers to trade abandonment for presence, if only within moments of a practice or connection. Facing the complex uncertainty in the world requires facing the complexity and uncertainty within and between ourselves.

Mid Gaussian is about the consequences of normal and hierarchy. The freedom of abnormal: integrating all of our parts and choosing alignment. Humans are unique among species for our ability to manipulate our environment and condition ourselves through that manipulation. Our survival requires breaking out of our capitalistic conditioning and establishing new norms of radical care and creativity for each other and the planet.

“Fitness is a myth

That we break the environment with

We are all of the many ways

To navigate a limitless life maze”

- Pandemic Patterns

Cakelin Fable is a multidisciplinary artist, scientist, and technologist. Disabled, immunocompromised, queer, trans, white, and a rural to urban transplant: they bring all of these lived experiences to their work. They are here to ask questions, explore the unexpected, embrace friction, and welcome the abandoned.

Their 2022 visual art collection Nucleation Invitation accompanies these poems, while holding some poetry within its pieces. Nucleation is the beginning of changing disorder into self-organization. Invitation is about setting intentions and letting go of control over outcomes.

“The stress of misalignment

In the humanity machine

Is you..

I am not your opportunity

I am not

We are your potential”

- Entitlement Quicksand