“In Your Experience of the World, How Do People Change?” (Self-Portrait)

Created December 2022. Shot on Digital.

“Well, it has something to do with God, so it’s not very good. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can’t even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled, and torn. Its up to you to do the stitching.”

“and then get up. And walk around.”

“Just mangled guts pretending”

-Tony Kushner, Perestroika, Act III Scene V