Gazing Down On It Severo Sarduy hand-drawn artist’s book

hand-drawn artist’s book

These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown

it draws us into a thinking process that lays bare some crucial articulations of the present: the transactional nature of care

which increasingly comes to us through technology’s lens

in the ruptures of class and privilege

Gazing Down On It Severo Sarduy hand-drawn artist’s bookLauren de S Naylor Gazing Down On It is a collection of dream narratives, of language as weapon or prayer, compiled in the plague year of 2020. These fragments iterate a pervasive concern with embodiment in relation to others, boundaries and their transgression, and the shifting slipping quality of roles and identities such as wife, mother, daughter, parent, queer, artist, witch and especially, woman (all terms that discomfort).