s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

The Graininess of Not Knowing
Catherine Henke & Randee Silv

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Sinking into open wind, she speaks about thisses & thats, about germinating what lays idle, deserted and unearthed. She twists paper into wire masks and threads strands of silk through minuscule holes in need of repair. 

You can’t erase. You can’t cross out. Nothing is too close. Nothing is too far. Objects separate into unstoppable light.  It just has to be possible to balance on fingertips, to arrive without traveling. Strange vanishings bound up in tight balls have been left under trees whistling to stones. 

I still remember how reflections reversed under farewell arches, how her bare skin flattened, how she refused to be pressed between two pages like a butterfly. If in the end I trip on the stairs, it’s well worth the fall. She’s not trying to make keys move. They move. She’s not trying to tell you what to hear. The hearing is doing the telling.

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Catherine Henke, a visual artist originally from Geneva, Switzerland chose to live and work in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal.This radical change in her living conditions encouraged her to learn about rural life and the practice of organic agriculture. She has developed knowledge related to the rhythms of nature and to an ecological consciousness.  Her art practice comprises varying uses of numerous techniques, such as painting, sculpture, ceramic and mixed media installation.

Abstract painter Randee Silv constructs wordslabs that emerge as gestures reshaped, juxtaposed, tilting fragments that alter between what is and isn’t. They’ve appeared in Posit, Urban Graffiti, Maudlin House, Sensitive Skin, Bone Bouquet & Otoliths. Her chapbook, Farnessity, has been published by dancing girl press (2018).