American Quasar

A visual-textual collaboration that addresses personal and political trauma, the emotional craters left by family, and the ways in which one learns to love not only as son, brother, student, or lover, but from the space one occupies as “citizen .” What began as an exploration of the precipice of violence evolved into an excavation of self, a deep meditation on how country, family, and trauma affect the ability to love . The images and words build a poetic space where the body is understood in both physical and celestial terms, giving a spiritual dimension to the collection’s larger claim that the political is personal .