{"id":2769,"date":"2022-11-29T18:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2769"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:58:16","slug":"art-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/art-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"ART THERAPY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Surrealist

by Caitlin Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

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ART THERAPY<\/h1>\n

Rhienna Ren\u00e9e Guedry<\/p>\n

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Before discovery, before surgery
\n      and excavation I planned drawings of
\nthe lava of my middle,
\n      my pelvic bone rendered in black ink
\nwide as the Bristol pad which bore it
\n      I sketched horrors, each pain a retelling
\nof the hips of my Doomsday
\n      \u2014all plagues, all infestations:
\nbox elders for their perseverance;
\n      larva and flies for their consumption;
\ngrubs for writhing in the rot of me<\/p>\n

The truth was these pests heralded
\n      dormancy, the two-on-a-pain-scale days,
\nhallelujahs so rare I dared not jinx them
\n      The truth was, I buried the lede
\nI was not consumed
\n      by slow, small beasts of the earth
\nNo, most days were electric eels
\n      shocking and feasting; tentacles
\nswift, sharp, and mean; most days
\n      I was scourged by the stuff
\nof bad tattoos\u2014razor blades, broken
\n      glass, barbed wire\u2014none of which
\nI could bring myself to render<\/p>\n

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Rhienna Ren\u00e9e Guedry<\/strong> (she\/they) is a writer, illustrator, and producer whose favorite geographic locations all have something to do with their proximity to water. Her work has appeared in Muzzle, Gigantic Sequins, Empty Mirror, HAD, Oyster River Pages,<\/em> and elsewhere. Rhienna is currently working on her first novel. Find out more about her projects at rhienna.com<\/a> or @cajunsparkle<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Smith<\/strong> (b.2001) is a multidisciplinary surrealist completing her master\u2019s degree at the University of Sunderland. Working with a plethora of mediums, Smith favours relief printmaking processes & painting, acrylic being her preferred choice. At present, her practice explores the figurative narrative of the internalised femme fatale conjuring fragmented paintings and prints. Caitlin visually transcribes an outrageous oeuvre displaying themes of politics, societal taboos, and conflict, employing a mordacious narrative leading to a series of pronounced juxtapositions filled with allegories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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