“Uninvited, the book, began as a creative collaboration: two living authors and a very ancient text (Plato’s Sympossium) all speaking to one another. Uninvited, the project, continues in the same collaborative spirit by making space for the work of artists in all sorts of media to create in collaboration with the poems, the dialogues that inspired them, and/or each other.”
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Outside The Room is a body of work created in collaboration with the Uninvited project. A common motif in my work is the relationship between the female body and the natural world. The women being uninvited from the discussions of Plato’s Symposium suggests that they were banished to the space outside the room, which I interpreted to be nature. This sets the context for my work. While reading the text, I imagined women wandering and gathering in nature, having their discussions amongst the trees and in fields. Connecting, discussing, creating, and existing together in nature.