Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming visual artist and writer Lindsey Morrison Grant from Portland, Oregon. “The Center of the Uterus” is a “digitally manipulated image of the Artist’s uterus, removed by their oncology surgeon in November 2018.” It looks like a nebula in a distant galaxy, like the leftover matter of a supernova. Birth and death are intertwined, as are outer and inner space. Looking inward spins us out into the farthest reaches of our awareness, while looking outward reflects the condition of our inmost self. What happens when we lose a part of ourselves in order to survive? What is the limit and nature of materiality and where does human consciousness reside? The power of Lindsey’s vision and of their story and vulnerability point to possibilities beyond what we accept as everyday reality, intimating something more. Confronting mortality reveals that there is a part of the Self that exists beyond society’s constructs, incomprehensible and uncontrollable, forever an enigma.
Contemplate “The Center of the Uterus” in Synkroniciti’s November 30th issue, “Space,” Vol. 5, No. 4, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Self-identifying as a neurodiverse, two-spirit, elder storyteller, Lindsey Morrison Grant is an award-winning screenwriter, poet, photographer and mixed-media artist. Deeply rooted in West Coast culture, they find inspiration in its majesty and diversity, as well as comfort in its inclusivity.
In and out of decades, incarnations, recoveries, and reinventions, Lindsey has worked as an educator; recreation program leader; volunteer coordinator; journalist; counselor and advocate for children, low income BIPOC communities, displaced homemakers, the elderly and the disabled. They have discovered transformational and transcendental healing through artmaking. Lindsey’s visual and literary works are a collective choir righteously singing out against the folly of discounting anything or anyone and lauding the glory of second chances.
Their visual works are represented by The Siy Gallery of San Francisco, CA.