Magnetic/Vast:
Marlene Mance /
John Luna

Mar. 9 – Apr. 1, 2023

Marlene Mance and John Luna present work exploring the connections between poetry as self-narrativizing consciousness ( a conscience speaking itself into presentness) and graphic images developed as an outcome of wayfinding, observing and examining. Mance's digital drawings and auto-theoretical poetry delineate her movement through three major life events and the paths, structures, and spaces that define their negotiation. Luna's composite poems, presented alongside lithographs printed on disassembled clothing fragments, together address post traumatic stress as expressed in his father’s war memoir. Common to both is a desire to engage complex stories in a way that allows the medium to speak as an attractor and collaborator.

The accompanying exhibition featured images from Mance’s graphic poetry novella Vital Torpor and assemblages by Luna.