Nathan Carter Speak Thoughtfully And Be Especially Gentle as you Approach the Outlying Tentacles and Sensitive Floating Feelers of the Cerulean Constellation, 2023

Speak Thoughtfully And Be Especially Gentle as you Approach the Outlying Tentacles and Sensitive Floating Feelers of the Cerulean Constellation, 2023, draws on a formal vocabulary that evokes floral formations and female anatomy. Held in blues, 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.