Aqueous Red

<p><em>Aqueous Red </em>explores the hidden aspects of water and love through Kit Ingram's spellbinding poetic exorcism of violence intimacy dreams and illicit liaisons which surface in fragments of interconnected lives. A boy watches his father pour scalding water onto his brother's hands and later rescues a doll promising to protect it with a kiss. A priest blesses a prostitute with holy water while a son drowns in a painful memory. In the sequence 'Red' a married man falls in love with a drag queen and they play out fantasies of violence in a theatrical blaze that threatens their destruction. Intimate and voyeuristic this collection plumbs the unseen moments that bind us all.</p>