Katharine Marais

Lives and works in Boston, MA

Artist statement

Katharine is an artist and writer from Wolfforth, Texas. Some themes of her work include language/poetry and secular forms of transcendence. www.theroses.xyz www.katharinemarais.xyz <><><> Laila is laden her body is complex with pearls that know more than she does. Indra’s net, she carries the multitude. she is the source of newness, hopes that branch toward good as likely as toward evil. omniscient she sees them all these figures, the possibility of new forms circling :: ​ shouting in concrete echo chambers stoned in smoky motels darting through night mist in anonymous cars-- ​ She, eye of the midnight galaxy. sees all. knows all. says nothing. judges none. ​ knows the curvature of every surface of every pearl in her branches, every peachy dimple every dip and curve of their champagne pearlesence, every bubble, every wart, every every last groove every mar and pock of their exquisite skins. but at the core of every pearl, a rich vein of mineable, unspeakably sacred ancient knowledge. encyclopedic wisdom. the keys to universal peace and understanding. the DNA of Love itself ​ that she can never, never, know. ​ <><><> ​ Laila is a passionless painter of flowers. She documents them in cool, objective detail without the slightest poeticization of an amorous corolla. She does not wonder their names. She renders them with a botanist’s accuracy in black ink. She paints, files her paintings in the order of their completion, and never looks at...

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