A Montage That Tells a Truth About This Bound Flesh: A Conversation,
Drawings by Mariam Aziza Stephan and Poems by Julia Johnson
Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
Drawings by Mariam Aziza Stephan and Poems by Julia Johnson
Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
Magnolia
Pyramidal crown, gloss green
Splendid, ethereal.
Permanently full of
Wide and open expression
Itself flowering 100 million years ago
How can we look so adoringly or even bravely stand underneath?
Beetle food, leaf palms opening, always
by Julia Johnson
Pyramidal crown, gloss green
Splendid, ethereal.
Permanently full of
Wide and open expression
Itself flowering 100 million years ago
How can we look so adoringly or even bravely stand underneath?
Beetle food, leaf palms opening, always
by Julia Johnson
Trunk
I know
The grave beneath
Always a grave beneath
Out of it
Life
Growth
Most reliable
Steadiest
Of all we know
Never mendacious
Never feared
by Julia Johnson
I know
The grave beneath
Always a grave beneath
Out of it
Life
Growth
Most reliable
Steadiest
Of all we know
Never mendacious
Never feared
by Julia Johnson
Escapes and Revelations: 2018-19 North Carolina Artist Fellows
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) 2020
In the arches, we cave - Artspace, Raleigh, NC 2019
The World and Other Worlds - Greensboro Project Space, NC 2018


