“Self Check-Out”
Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Lauren Woods: The color scheme originally came from a random marker grab while working in sketchbook. Poet Diane Raptosh: The artist’s response resonated nicely with the poem–I like how it suggests the nonstop reverberations and inclusionary lines of self.
Diane Raptosh’s collection American Amnesiac was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award (poetry). She teaches literature and creative writing as well as courses for the criminology program at the College of Idaho. Lauren Woods is an artist whose practice and creative research explores concepts of mythic time. Artworks become a space to examine notions of nostalgia, desire, power, beauty, death, and embodied expression. Personal myth is developed visually across various mediums such as painting, video, and dance performances.