Joan Dark, SOLRAD:
“The short description on the inside flap of your book mentions, “exploring the body as the site and host of all pleasure and pain”, and I do see this running thread here of the limits of our physical bodies, how to best live within our flesh prisons, do you want to elaborate on that?
Golden Record was created during a time when my relationship with my body felt particularly antagonistic, and large chunks of it remain a confrontation, an exorcism, and a soothing of those feelings. I often find myself incapable of grappling with the depth of contradiction in how I relate to and inhabit my body through any means other than the abstracted world of art and poetry, so it is a frequent subject in my more autobiographical work. Making my body a presence in my art, a place to draw creative inspiration even if it’s extracted from points of pain, has sometimes helped me attach a notion of beauty to it that can otherwise be elusive to me. In that way Golden Record is one of my more selfish projects, in that the book itself is a byproduct, and the experience of making it and what that did for my ability to wring meaning from unprocessed emotions is more important to me than anything anyone else might get out of the experience of reading it. Of course, any and all connection or enjoyment people find in it is deeply welcome and wonderful, but in a lot of ways this one really is just for me. ”
Read the full interview on SOLRAD‘s website here!
