Nathan Carter Sky Portals Opening - Slipping Pink Ribbons Smoothing Curious Course - Starlet's Careful Channel Closing, 2023

Sky Portals Opening - Slipping Pink Ribbons Smoothing Curious Course - Starlet's Careful Channel Closing, 2023, draws on a formal language that evokes floral formations and female anatomy. With pink, purple and gold details on a cream-colored background, 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.