23 Spheres
Pari Malik finds the silence painful. She lifts her feet inside the transparent bubble chair and wraps her arms around her calves, mimicking the position of the woman beside her.
Sparrow stares down at the blades of grass with glassy eyes. Without makeup or shoes, Pari notices Sparrow is making little effort to hide her shock. They are sheathed inside identical acrylic spheres—based on a chair design created in the 1960s—hanging from a steel frame in Sparrow's backyard.
"Sparrow, I understand if you don't want to talk any more about his disappearance," Pari says. "I was hoping when I arrived at your home today that Spence would be right at your side, smiling and safe."
"He is not here," Sparrow says, continuing to hang her head straight down toward the void below her and
