They Don’t Want Us to Feel

By Marwa Helal

APR 2019 | Critics Page

The mind’s wet paint. Your ears tingle with knowing. Your scalp—it comes alive. The transfer is complete.

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By Jared Stanley

MAY 2018 | Poetry

Jared Stanley's most recent book is EARS (Nightboat, 2017). Forthcoming projects include Ignore the Cries of Empty Stones and Your Flesh Will Break Out in Scavengers, an essay and artwork, Terma, a collaboration with the artist Sameer Farooq, and Bewildernessless, an artist's book. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

Rona Pondick

By Pac Pobric

DEC 18-JAN 19 | ArtSeen

The distended head that rests on a small rectangular base on the floor is polished and smooth. From behind, the elongated form and vaguely twisted neck look entirely alien but for two clipped human ears that perch on either side, just where they should be. Slip around to the front, and now it’s a human head for sure, with a closed mouth and eyes and a sharp nose that cuts into a slot below the brow.