Art manifesto poem by artist Riva Lehrer
Indeed, I agree that body is the first (“primary”) text. §§The body is the first story; our text of first meeting. I see you, you see me, skin, bone, eyes, hair: assumptions pour forth like a rip in a dam. See the thousand imprints of sex, nation, money, clues to the familiar and exotic. We read and decide in eyeblink time. When bone and blood show an unfamiliar shape, the judgments freeze into a first, rigid wall between you and I.So paint the story of surface and bone explicit, unavoidable, and ask
what did you fear then
and what do you think now.
Reblogged from Gender Magick
