Readings

Painting of a man's hands wearing purple latex gloves on a bronze sculpture.
The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

Close up of a woman with long dark hair
Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

A crop of an image from Deborah Levy's book cover, a black and white photograph of feet with a spoon.
Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

a collage portrait of Silvia Federici
The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?

a person is half submerged in the underworld styx
Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds

A figure swimming in the centre lane, fighting against the darkness swirling around her.
My Body in Water

The swimming pool is my secret world and safe haven away from shame and judgement. But it hasn’t come easy.