"*This collection draws from my studies of Japanese literature and myth, a personal journey in natural ink-making to echo place and symbology, and my family’s ancestry (both in stories known and lost; epigenetics and health) - through the lens of my lived experience with multiple sclerosis and neurodiversity, medium and process. In my creative practice, the scales shift daily between these four pillars.* Nagase is meant to be a surreal (yet grounding) landscape in ink and thread inspired by Kiyoko Nagase's poem ""I am the Earth,"" with design callbacks to the artist's companion work - Yoshino MRI and Artist's MRI VI. The artist chose this poem from drawing similarities with the reason behind creating her own ink, to establish a sense of place amid grief and disability. "I am the Earth I am warm, moist soil I am a single supple stalk I draw my life all the way up into corollas of wild berries on the roadside I am amazed at a breast of water welling to flow into the inlet of a muddy rice paddy I am amazed at myself being hot steam blowing fire and sulfur up from the bottom of the great ocean, deep indigo. I am amazed at the crimson blood flow covering the earth’s surface in human shape; I am amazed that it swells as the tides ebb and flow, and gushes out monthly under distant invisible gravity. A person’s love, a person’s temperament, is as fragile as a mushroom in its pitiable shape as helpless as seeking shelter from rain under a shepherd’s purse, yet I am amazed at myself being a shroud that finally envelops him at a time when one man is despondent. I luxuriate and I am the same as soil I share countless failures and immense waste with tiny maggots in the dirt and daffodils quivering at the edges of unknown cliffs I am amazed that I am the pulsating twilight. I am amazed that I am a dewdrop which at a set time rises to the blade tip of a rice plant. I am the earth. I live there, and I am the very same earth. In the four billionth year I have come to know the eternal cold moon, my other self, my hetero being, then, for the first time, I am amazed that I am warm mud."""

- Lindsey Holcomb

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