Em Inserra is a Minneapolis-based artist and writer exploring the (sub)conscious through memory, dreams, instinct, and the body. Working primarily with ink on paper, her work merges stark contrast with visceral language. She also experiments with film, sound, image, light, and other materials.
Catholic Sex (A Mechanism to Suspend the Guilt)
Ink on watercolor paper
11” x 14”
If you’d like to buy the original I’d sell it unframed for $70 LMK : SOLD
The Dream Report
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don’t you hate it
when I speak in sleep language
when the past and the almost future
slide together like wet photographs
and I can’t pull them apart
it’s all quite bizarre
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Ballpoint pen on mixed media paper you know the deal with ballpoint pens? I don’t
spider silk
tugging through bone and breath
sewn through the dark
tied to what we’ve lost
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“every light is out tonight
the redeye run, the fan blades hum
so I’ll let out a shameful whine
too weak to howl
does that mean I’m ready?
open up the cage
kibble dry, water’s clouded
flashing lights, a sound too loud
I remember the outstretched
hand that fed me
is it still reaching?
the sinew and the bone
red, gray, wet
youll see me when all distractions fade
too real
youll know me then, again.
open up the pen“
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Ink on watercolor paper
