Look how instinctively serene my swan is. Dream images cascade, or the real accelerates: what is bird, what is soul, what is stuff, what is chill, abject, and obliterating, Eve’s text impresses upon us the girly raptures of self-knowledge via voice note.

Eve Esfandiari-Denney is a writer and PhD student at Royal Holloway University. Her debut pamphlet My Bodies This Morning This Evening was published with Bad Betty Press in 2022.

The Day Sketch Document: LA Madeline in Increments of Being via Voicenote was commissioned by TACO! in the context of Siân Newlove-Drew’s exhibition Cygnus.