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Through the eyes of Caveman.

46 everyday things, re-seen by a caveman.

The Caveman Out in the world

a baby shower

The tribe gathers, but no one has died and no one has been killed.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a Berlin techno rave

Under the ground, in a stone cave with no fire, the tribe gathers to be hunted by a heartbeat.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a Black Friday sale

The tribe has gone mad before the sun.

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The Caveman Kitchen

a coffee mug

It holds a small hot lake, and no one drinks it.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a doomsday prepper bunker

A man has dug a den beneath the ground and filled it with meat that never rots.

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The Caveman Home

a doorbell

There is a small round eye by the mouth of the cave, and when a stranger touches it, the cave screams.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a first date

Two strangers sit across a small fire that hums but does not warm, and they show each other their teeth.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a funeral

The tribe gathers, but no one hunts.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a furry convention

I follow the sound of drums into a great cave with no roof, and inside it every hunter has become the beast they hunt.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a goodbye at the airport gate

Two people hold each other too long.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a grandmother's kitchen

Here the fire never dies.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a gym in January

The cave is cold, but full.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a haunted house

The tribe pays to be afraid.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a hospital waiting room

The tribe sits in rows and waits to hear who lives.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a house party at 3am

The fire is dead but the cave still glows.

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The Caveman Home

a houseplant

A tribe member stands in the corner and never eats.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a job interview

Two of my tribe sit across the flat stone, and neither one hunts.

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The Caveman Home

a laundry basket

The tribe sheds skins.

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The Caveman Kitchen

a microwave

I put cold meat in the little cave and shut the mouth.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a middle school dance

The tribe puts its young in a cave with too much light and no fire, and tells them to be joyful.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a music festival

The tribe gathers in a field with no meat.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a nightclub bathroom queue

A cave inside the cave, and every hunter waits at its mouth to enter one at a time.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a park bench

The tribe builds a small dead tree and no one hunts from it.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a séance

Six of them sit in a ring, holding hands in the dark.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a self-checkout machine

Tribe builds a hunting ground with no hunters.

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The Caveman On you

a set of keys

I carry a small clutch of teeth on a ring of bone.

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The Caveman On you

a shopping receipt

The tree-skin comes out of the cold box with a whir, long and thin, still warm like something just born.

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The Caveman Home

a shower

I stand under falling water and it is warm.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a silent disco

A hundred people dance, and the air is dead.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a spin class

A cave, but the sun lives in it.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a TikTok live stream

The young one holds a bright stone before her face and speaks to no one.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a traffic jam

The herd has stopped moving, but the herd is still angry.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a voicemail from someone gone

My son shows me a small flat stone that speaks with a dead voice.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a wedding

The tribe gathers, but no one is hunting.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a work call on mute

The tribe gathers, but the tribe is not here.

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The Caveman Out in the world

a yoga retreat

Many people go into the woods to become weak on purpose.

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The Caveman Out in the world

an airport at 5am

The cave is bright and it is night, but the sun-stones in the ceiling do not know this.

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The Caveman Home

an alarm clock

In the dark, a small angry spirit begins to scream.

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The Caveman Out in the world

an elevator

The tribe waits at the mouth of a small cave in the wall.

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The Caveman On you

an umbrella

The sky throws water at us, and this one holds up a little black wing to say no.

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The Caveman Out in the world

doomscrolling at 2am

The tribe is sleeping and the cold thing in my hand is awake.

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The Caveman Out in the world

getting left on read

I say words into the flat cold stone.

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The Caveman Out in the world

holding a newborn

They put the small one in my arms and everyone goes quiet, like a hunt.

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The Caveman Out in the world

moving out of a childhood bedroom

I put my whole life in boxes and it does not fill many.

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The Caveman Out in the world

the first night in an empty apartment

The tribe is gone.

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The Caveman Out in the world

the last day at a job you loved

The tribe has decided I am no longer of the tribe.

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