Daisy Parris: I'll be your mother and I'll be mine, too
I鈥檝e written poems.
I often do this but I don鈥檛 often share them. There is an element of poetry that takes me back to English Lit. class, reading Shakespeare鈥檚 sonnets and thinking 鈥榳hat a whiney wanker鈥� whilst my teacher pontificated about the beauty of his linguistic techniques. But then Ana da Silva came into my life, and Kathy Acker, and Karen Finley, and Kathleen Hannah, and Travis Alabanza, closely followed by Michelle Tea, and Joelle Taylor, and I started to think maybe poems are alright.
Similarly, when I first spoke with Daisy about their personal cultural context, they expressed to me that growing up in an environment saturated by punk culture opened a door to making art, and existing in the 鈥渁rt world鈥�, that otherwise felt like it was squirreled away up an ivory tower.
As well as sharing similar personal inspiration and cultural context - we have visited similar psychological and emotional spaces, Daisy and I, over the past couple of years at least it seems, both through specific circumstance and sociological environment.
鈥淚 think we鈥檙e in sync鈥� they say to me on the phone as we discuss I鈥檒l be your mother. 鈥淲e鈥檝e synced up!鈥� I joke in reply. --- Though I have been thinking about moments like this pretty deeply for a while now; tacit psychological connections, psychic communities, the fundamentally collaborative nature of all things including, survival, anger, grief, joy, fun, creative expression, motherhood.
With the above in mind, here are some personal creative responses, from my gut, to written prompts in Daisy鈥檚 paintings, in this show, that we have together settled on title-ing I鈥檒l be your mother and I鈥檒l be mine, too
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I鈥檝e written poems.
I often do this but I don鈥檛 often share them. There is an element of poetry that takes me back to English Lit. class, reading Shakespeare鈥檚 sonnets and thinking 鈥榳hat a whiney wanker鈥� whilst my teacher pontificated about the beauty of his linguistic techniques. But then Ana da Silva came into my life, and Kathy Acker, and Karen Finley, and Kathleen Hannah, and Travis Alabanza, closely followed by Michelle Tea, and Joelle Taylor, and I started to think maybe poems are alright.
Similarly, when I first spoke with Daisy about their personal cultural context, they expressed to me that growing up in an environment saturated by punk culture opened a door to making art, and existing in the 鈥渁rt world鈥�, that otherwise felt like it was squirreled away up an ivory tower.
As well as sharing similar personal inspiration and cultural context - we have visited similar psychological and emotional spaces, Daisy and I, over the past couple of years at least it seems, both through specific circumstance and sociological environment.
鈥淚 think we鈥檙e in sync鈥� they say to me on the phone as we discuss I鈥檒l be your mother. 鈥淲e鈥檝e synced up!鈥� I joke in reply. --- Though I have been thinking about moments like this pretty deeply for a while now; tacit psychological connections, psychic communities, the fundamentally collaborative nature of all things including, survival, anger, grief, joy, fun, creative expression, motherhood.
With the above in mind, here are some personal creative responses, from my gut, to written prompts in Daisy鈥檚 paintings, in this show, that we have together settled on title-ing I鈥檒l be your mother and I鈥檒l be mine, too
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