Tag: feminine
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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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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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Of Sacred Seasons
This is time of year, my creativity seems to transform. Becomes almost corporeal—that is, more hands-on, more nurturing, more intensely connected to the rhythms of nature. Instead of spending my days in the writing room tinkering with poetry or experiments in collage, I find myself outdoors tending to the garden, to the wildlife that lives […]
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Blink.
I continue to be surprised by the writings of Abraham Maslow. No more, perhaps, than by the depth of his interest in the intricacies of human sexuality. (Who knew?) In masculinity and femininity and their relationships to human motivation, creativity, growth, and self-knowledge. It was, in fact, from a brief analysis of male-female courtship or […]
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On Erotic Self-Awareness
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, like a country, […]
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