Handling the Pea  2021
Ceramic, on clay impressions of the old house 5 tiles 10” x 13.5” each   There was a liquid, and also a pea, that over time had caused me a bruising. I swallowed the liquid to get to the pea, because I had to swallow. So I swallowed. And swallowed. And swallowed.
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And so on...     Joseph Harley Painter is an artist of the Queer Appalachian community who studies how events from our past unconsciously spill into our actions and relations. What moments of our histories are constant, and what do they insist of their own will? He is currently expanding surfaces into volumes, and exploring moments when systems of containment are exceeded by their contents.   www.drinkardsodyssey.com