"For there is no respite without shadows, no husbandry without grief, no queen without her bees eager for the wound." - Jocelyn Saidenberg, On Recipe
Harter's subjects lack outward singularities; rather, they embody particular personas and tropes within art history, literature, and comic strips that appeal to a collective cultural memory.
At the root of her practice is a question of identity—a yearning for self-determination whose complicated entanglements with cruelty are personified through Harter's hunts.
Humor vies with inherent violences. Amidst the kerfuffle, figures set dubious booby traps, swipe with busted butterfly catchers, and trigger rifles that misfire in clumsy puffs of smoke.
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