Words produce chemical reactions. Praise releases dopamine. Criticism activates pain identical to physical injury. Yet, some Words persist long after their initial impact fades. Embedding themselves as internal architecture.
Words generate fleeting highs that disappear, linger as seeds that mutate over time, or harden into immovable weights carried for decades. A sentence spoken casually— “people who chase dreams never wake up” —can lodge itself in the body and resurface years later as restraint. Post-Adrenaline Blues examines this : how sound becomes structure, and how temporary utterance produces lasting impact.
Encouragement can motivate briefly, then calcify into obligation or fear. Criticism can wound immediately, then evolve into boundary or protection. Words do not remain static within us; they age, distort, and acquire new functions as we change. Like seeds, their eventual form depends on soil, pressure, and duration.
Materially, this idea becomes weight. Ube seeds-discarded after consumption are hand-picked and repurposed, each one standing in for a word: small, hard, and enduring. Strung together, they form belts that wrap the body, restricting movement while remaining ornamental.
Cement, shaped with trowels, literalizes how words become immovable weight. Fluid at first, and then rigid with time. Post adrenaline bluEs renders linguistic architecture visible and tangible, inviting a conscious choice: to carry words deliberately as adornment, rather than unconsciously bear them as burden.