Experience part of Survey III artist Che Applewhaite’s sculptural work untitle “HANDLE WITH CARE” by downloading the PDF below. untitle “HANDLE WITH CARE” asks you to engage with a character called R.P.J. across both physical and online spaces, by inviting you to take away a sheet from the paper stack on top of the plinth. The work explores how hurting and healing intimacies overlap within colonial systems of exchange.
R.P.J. asks …
What more do you want?
“all you have to do is take it”
Your poem brought me back; it was my need more than you imagined. How can I thank you for what you did to me?
The killings, the deaths big and little, the sex, the violations, again and again; the surveillance, the fear, the despair, the what you called love, the what you called good, the what you called true; I zoom, and there, right here, I see myself, again.
How can I thank you?
All I have left to do is handle it.
All I have to do is want it….
MORE THAN EVER BEFORE.