“AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN” by Ica Sadagat (icasadagat.co)
Statement/Description AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN was born out of ritual communion. It started as weekly annotations recorded by a body noticing particular language from sparring, bruising, newfound survival, material recovery, native loss, classed labor, separation, and felt closeness while living in Lënapathòkink and Philadelphia. These writings—often made during or immediately following martial arts training or surfing or cooking or teaching or organizing—later materialized as an untitled poem for a global solidarity reading for Palestine in 2023. Now titled AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN, the text continues as an ongoing score, chapbook, dispatch, and map toward urgent intimacies, memories, and return.
About the Artist/Author Ica Sadagat attends to text as material and to material as a collective labor and practice. A trained community worker, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica surfs and spars.
Details: 5 × 7 in. • Blue and black ink • Saddle-stitched risograph printed zine • Published by Matiz Press, 2026
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