Asemic Writing: an experimental poetics (2023)
“...a poiesis that honors the methodologies, memories, ideas, and symbols that comprise our lived experiences, affirms our artistic intution, and uplifts imagination and relationality as potent sources...”
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Ephemeral Ecologies, Lawrence Arts Center, 2023, June-August
Burlap, cotton fabric, raspberries, turmeric, spinach, coffee
“Over the course of ten weeks, Liberty Memorial Central Middle School seventh-grade students studied poetry and visual mark-making with artist Rae Atakpa to create a collaborative textile inspired by the AIDS Memorial quilt and Freedom Quilts of the American South.”
Hellinsia homodactyla (2023)
Hex keys, low voltage copper wire, journal wire, wire hanger
“...there is hardware
(industry, automation, mechanics)
dowsing rod / wishbone, plastic kin
conducting chemicals. eye, colored
woman (cyborg), remove my IUD
six weeks before Roe v. Wade is overturned...”
the parable (2023)
Thank you Octavia Butler, Dr. Tanya Washington, and Kaw River.
Seeds in order of appearance: Eryngium leavenworthii, Chasmanthium latifolium, Monarda fistulosa
3RD EYE MSK (2022)
Lentils, split peas, black-eye peas, amethyst, embroidery floss, fleece
“The weight and potentiality of legumes, the conductive ward of amythest, and the unifying stitch of embroidery channel the divinity and transcendence of ancestral dreaming. Holistically, the mask object implicates protection and rest within/despite racial-capitalist exploitation ...”
scription (2019)
“...in their attempts to defy our watch, and collapse
the nonexistent boundary between public and private,
they are often witnessed...”
Igbo Landing (2019)
“...it is pouring rain and i am barefoot. i run over and over again for an hour. the cornfield is swampy, i slip and step in sow thistle.
i think, in my long dress, about how this running felt two centuries ago...”
q.doc trailer (2018)
archival footage of midwestern queers and a mundane winter—
on being a living self at the end of the world.
echoeeeeeee (2018-2019)
a longform, transtemporal poem,
an ode to finsta and feral internet kids