Nathan Carter Vulva-Vulvacula Top Cat Calling Sweet Kitten For Mercury Vapors, Mind-Melds, & Sub-Space Entanglements Buzzing In - In The Middle of the Night, 2023

Vulva-Vulvacula Top Cat Calling Sweet Kitten For Mercury Vapors, Mind-Melds, & Sub-Space Entanglements Buzzing In - In The Middle of the Night, 2023, draws on a formal language that evokes floral formations and female anatomy. Held in pinks and purples with gold-colored details, the work features intersecting curving lines and a variety of shapes that oscillate between registering as amorphous abstract shapes or polymorph human anatomy. For Carter the very language of forms is personal: every work's curve, color and flourish become a subversive, revelatory act, a claim on self-determination in the artist's exploration of queer, trans-identity. In this sense, the reference to maps and star charts from earlier bodies of works continues to be relevant, but the subject of this search has become manifest.