Amy Jean Porter
Amy Jean Porter has for the past ten years considered the intersection between human culture and the natural world through text and image. This is her first collaboration. She has presented solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Paris, and her work has been featured in Cabinet, McSweeney’s, The Awl, and elsewhere. Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life (a New York Times Notable Book), Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She is the recipient of the Kingsley Tuft prize.
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They are insanely bright and look across the room at each other. I love putting handmade things into magazines and books and the internet – drawings for everyone to hold in their laps (or laptops). But there’s nothing quite like having the drawing itself, and all its quirks of color and line, out there in the world at eye level having conversations with strangers. I think they probably have great conversations with New Yorkers.
