Author Reading: Close your eyes and open your hands

Close your eyes and open your hands pulls its theme from artist Matt Shlian's solo show at CLUSTER.

Paper is a material that possesses a memory. It has the ability to vanish in fire or hold fast when purifying water. The body also possesses memory. As an immuno-compromised person living with a hidden disability, Matt Shlian’s studio practice is directed by paper’s ability to hold memory and his body’s inability to sometimes find balance.

Close your eyes and open your hands presents 6 writers whose work reflects on these themes as well as repetition, meditation and pattern. Guest-curated by Cam Finch of PoetTreeTown and writer Kyunghee Kim.

Includes writers Russell Brakefield, Katie Hartsock, Nazifa Islam, Theo Poling, Jupiter Soto, and Michelle Yang.

Author events are always no-fee, open to everyone and held in the gallery surrounded by the artwork.