The Earth In Our Bones

“The Earth in Our Bones is one of the strongest collections to have emerged in recent years. Here is an intense engagement with serious issues of race and otherness; their impact on personal identity and the perplexing question of personal and cultural identity. This collection grips me in the way the author’s two art forms, poetry and photography, show us how casual scenes and throwaway objects such as beach debris may open us to a deeper connection with what we never thought of before.”
—Anne Lee Tzu Pheng, poet

Marc Nair PhD is an educator, poet and multidisciplinary artist. He exhibits photographs, text-based video art, performs spoken word and collaborates with graphic artists, photographers, dancers and visual artists. Text and image are deeply interwoven in Nair’s practice. In it, the verbal and the visual occupy spaces that imply, or offer, the presence of an iterative self. The net result is dialogic, a back-and-forth where the gaze travels between the two, instinctively searching for connections and new ways of telling. The Earth In Our Bones is Nair’s eleventh collection.