I am obsessed with aphorism. And I like to run-on, to linger on long, to get lost in locating myself; feeling through the quotidian findings and follies of looking and being seen. I am a vessel for longing. Through text, literature, and language, my braided writing and studio practice construct close-up pictures of faraway places, treads in the intensity of the intimate at a half-light distance, and textures a tactile, cadenced exploration of un-fixing myself in time. I do not want to explain, but to describe To feel the friction between the body and being To wrap the world in the half-truths of seeing To press the text into omniscient feeling To plait the moment in the mirth meaning To spell my Self in my own likeness To fix the space of subject-object To shake the thing to find its vibrance To write my world to know its contents And to know the place for the first time.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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Tamar Bresge is an artist and writer from Toronto, Canada. She works primarily in literary art, performance, and photography, picking at positions of power, hierarchies of bodies, and locating the self. She likes most paperback books, all kinds of sparkling water, oxford commas, and people who care a lot about anything. She is half-blind and wholly open to receive. She is an MFA candidate at the SMFA at Tufts.