Iden Crockett
Drawing, Photography, Digital/Anolog Collage
Bio: Transgender poet, essayist, artist, and activist Iden Crockett uses her intensely personal work to share her journey through adversity and discovery. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry and writes the award winning column My Name is Iden for the Yellow Springs News. She lives and works with her family in Yellow Springs.
Artist Statement: I speak of the power and the horror of self-knowledge. My words, my poetry, and my pictures, these are the record of battles fought against a body, and often a mind, that are not my own. They are the testimony of an amateur masochist and a career non-conformist. They are screams, and tears, and blood drying on the edge of a razor, and the discovery of a fundamental truth: that to regenerate, first you must degenerate. I destroyed the self that could not contain the fire of my soul and now I stand, reborn from the ashes, powerful and unafraid.
NVR DUN
Pen/Pencil/Digital