My roommate, Kate Bullen, finally got her new site/blog up over Christmas and it looks great. Not all the portfolio pages are up but they will be soon! I would try to say she works in a certain vein, but she tends to make work in several mediums including photography, video, book making, and assorted handmade goods. Above are a few selections from Absence 1&2 which is the project she worked on for the past two years.The statement reads:

As far back as I can recall, I have had the ability to disappear and return again. Where I go is a question I will always have. Is there a distant plane where I may belong? Are my seizures a compulsion to go there, or is it only chemistry? I settle on the former, narrating to fill the void of time stolen. In falling I feel the gravitational pull of a great black hole. I always oblige. It is a summoning rather than an invitation. I cannot ever decide the time of departure, and I do not have the option to say no.

There is a push and a pull between the dream of the world created versus the aggressive nature of the fantasy. Control is lost, yet there is a nervous engagement- just as with the chaotic hurtles we face in everyday life. There is no telling who will overcome, or deciding the scope of battle scars.

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