mortality Archives - Katherine Oktober Matthews

Pain Isn’t Pretty

September 29, 2015
Arts & Cultural Analysis, Writing, Writing Highlights

“If you sit with the discomfort long enough, it can transform with effort into something else. For example, ecstasy. For example, liberation. For me, what my body brews when percolating over these particular images long enough is transcendence of self.”
(GUP Magazine, 2015)

On Immortality

October 5, 2011
Arts & Cultural Analysis, Writing

"Our entire waking lives, we can only know the contents of our own minds, our own bodies. We can never be certain of our existence, of our place in the world, until we see it reflected by others."
(GUP Magazine, 2011)