In the 1960’s, Leonard Cohen, an already famous Canadian author, published a poem entitled “When I Uncovered Your Body” in his collection
The Spice-Box of Earth. For the second work in this exhibition, I recovered this poem as an uncovering of my own body. I presented the satirical re-writing, which titles this work, over the image of a burned house. A stack of plates and plentiful seeds mark a place, a time and the possibility of many beginnings.
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