The Pasticheur
Vol 43: “Staying with the Unknown”

LAURA ANN REED & NICOLETTE MISHKAN

What kind of wholeness is possible after the self has been broken?

In Laura Ann Reed's Nelly Sachs Cycle: A Circling, poems move in orbit around a poetry of displacement and fracture, where language limps, converges, and refuses arrival. In Nicolette Mishkan's Lethe's Tavern, fifteen paintings trace a descent through forgetting, mystical intoxication, and the breaking of the vessels, emerging into a self assembled from many states, never the same, never finally whole.

Different routes, one question: what does it mean to live, create, and love without certainty?