“My work is ultimately preoccupied with the forces that pull bodies apart and the incredible strength and resources it takes to draw them back together, almost simultaneously, in a suturing. These forces destroy corporeal bodies, political bodies, human bodies, bodies of ideology, earthly bodies. These rendings, though always violent, are not always negative, punitive, or unwelcome. 

Every rending demands a repair, every repair leaves a mark, and every mark informs the future; in every future, inevitably, the rending occurs again.

As a queer mother of two transgender women, I must see this polemic as a beautiful thing; our resilience, our aspiration, our insistence that we can and should be good still exists – we still reach for the divine, even just as a fleeting feeling, we still sting with the sublime, the imagination still recoils at the limit of its boundary when it reaches mortality: scale, scope, duration. I accept the Rupture is necessary, sometimes from an abundance and overfullness, and sometimes from a rending, a wound-making.

The work examines the rupture/suture, the tearing/healing and the infinite moments in between, this pulling polemic of aspiration and dissolution of spirit, this heaving-to of social bias and the cleaving-twain as well. The work is slowly researched, slowly built, in sensitive response, and slowly abided within, recording with fingertips and breath - the drawn-out moment, folded back on itself, suspended.”

- Kate Howe