Tag: erotic art
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It Has Come to This
Pieces No. 13, paper collage, 2022 and in the end, there is only this mysterious absence fitful as a question-mark: an apple core, a fishing wire—a note to myself all that you love is waiting on the other side of paradise a form in the mirror the wheels have turned cold a symphony outran itself […]
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In the Present Tense
Pieces No. 6, paper collage, 2022 in the present tense an insomnia full of streets a sunrise that grows larger i saw the same face in a parking lot a ladybug, a flower, and a dream our souls dress in old clothes and float through the cracks in a rented mango tree in a lamp […]
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What’s the Rush?
Pieces No. 11, paper collage, 2022 where are you going the rest of your lifewe’ve only just begunthis waltz of upholstered shadowsthe moon, leaning out its windowcalling in the clarinets, horsestearing ourselves from the doorframesmaking fools of these tattered sheets We spend too much time looking outside when we should be looking within. I like […]
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Pieces
Pieces No. 3, paper collage, 2022 where do you go when you discover yourself? where the night comes in where silence engulfs our bodies like a hammer i close my eyes and i am unborn i lie down with the bell of the oyster i am the voice of a poet who wanted to but […]
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The Saints Are All We Have Left
Woman No. 9, paper collage, 2021 we have names for souls even now it’s only a matter of time before the ghost-keeper fools us as if death won’t follow us if we never leave the ground won’t untie the kissing thread and the antidote? spray paint your failures on the walls deliver the crow from […]
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As If for the First Time
Blue and Sentimental, mixed media collage, 2021 Meditations on art, nature, and femininity: I begin with the image of a naked woman, of a woman who is at once very much alive and long dead. She is me and not me. Every woman. Every woman in my collages—in the Nude Collection, in particular—is me […]
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A Moment Apart
Woman No. 11, mixed media, 2021 the real woman is under water and in the moment you grab my hips i am assured of her destruction swift, like a pine needle to be, at once, a moment apart to be a fast car to be a bird at the wheel hour after hour turning our […]
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The Dealer and Other Nude Art
The Dealer, mixed media, 2021 I’ve been creating at a hectic pace for the past few days and have several new collages to share with you. I also received some fresh source material in the mail this afternoon, including the Taschen volume, Feu d’Amour (Seductive Smoke), a collection of erotic photographs that examines the history […]
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Ceremonial Spaces and Other Nude Art
Ceremonial Spaces, mixed media, 2021 All three of the collages featured in this post were assembled within the past week (I made Ceremonial Spaces and You’re a Dream this morning.). And I realized, as I was looking through them this afternoon, that they seemed to jive both aesthetically and conceptually with some of the poetry […]
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Woman No. 5 and Other Nude Art
Woman No. 5, mixed media, 2021 I recently acquired some fun new source materials, including a book titled, 1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939. And I have to say, it’s a lovely book. The introduction gives a brief but informative history of the first erotic photographs, and the images are of a […]
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