AND AS I OPEN
Marisa presents this film poem as an intimate introduction for her work in the upcoming group exhibition THE NEW ARK - Sept 1 - Oct 15th at RiverCity Gallery in Bangkok. The exhibition is produced by Art Can Die www.artcandie.com︎︎︎
Marisa and Art Can Die are collaborating to create a monumental sculptural walk-through gate representing her vagina, her ‘Flower of Life’. Marisa will also unveil a series of 13 moon paintings created with her menstrual blood.
These new works are a natural unfolding from Flower of Life – the first ever NFT of a vagina, we minted back in April 2021.
AND AS I OPEN
by Marisa Papen
And as I open
I find myself
I admit that I am
Presence
Here
Now
Unfolding the Flower of Life
And then I walk
I walk
Through gates of reality
Seeing
Formations that burden our freedom to be
I decorate them
With blossoming
Undeniable
Delicate beauty
Beauty is living truth
And I keep walking
I open more
My blood
It paints
A story in time
Of time
Beyond time
And I see that she
My flow of life
Is everything
I am
The crescent and the full
The wild and the still
The sprouting and the whithering
The rock that crumbles into sand
And the rock that remains
And as I bleed - I continue to walk
Dressing flowers onto cold, heavy stones
Because I am living
And Life is Art
And Art Can Die
But wants to live
