Maria Fusco

machine oil smells sweet
Vestoj, 2014

machine oil smells sweet

machine oil smells sweet is a prose poem about women factory workers and is inspired, in part, by Marianne Herzog's excellent 1980 book From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework.

2014: originally published inĀ Vestoj
2021: voice-over segment in Margaret Salmon's filmĀ Icarus (after Amelia)
2023: chapter in The Textile Reader edited by Jessica Hemmings published by Bloomsbury