DUPLEX // FEED, 2024
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle canvas, mother of pearl. Purchase

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Art by Diana Noh
Poem by Juj Lepe

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DUPLEX // FEED

Keep me safe in your best memories,
Where sliced fruit feigns sincere apology.

Apology is salted fruit, it feigns sincerity.
My tongue does not wound but is wounded,

My wounded tongue tries not to wound again.
Moon looking in, I sleep best in your home.

At home, in sleep, the moon looks best on me.
Always a child senses the conflict & its end—

The child in me senses the end of conflict.
My home is a wound that keeps opening.

My open wound is a home that keeps,
And my mother feeds the fire with her life.

With her fire, my mother feeds my life.
Keep me safe in your best memories.

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juj e lepe is a first-generation Mexican-American poet from Stockton, California. They are currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UW Madison. For the moment, they call Madison and Chicago home.

Diana Noh is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, fiber and installation. Her practice celebrates reconstruction of distressed photographs of architectural spaces and landscapes, exploring themes of trauma embedded in her family relationships and cultural in-betweenness.

Diana has exhibited pieces in Asia, North America, and Europe, at venues including Eastern Market, in Detroit, MI; Editart in Geneva, Switzerland; The Art Center Highland Park, in Highland Park, IL; Hudson Valley MOCA, in Peekskill, NY; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI; VisArt in Rockville, MD and Ara Art Center in Seoul, South Korea. Her work is collected in the collections of Jennifer and Dan Gilbert, Kyeungil University and numerous Private Collections.

Diana currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. She holds a B.F.A. from Kyungil University (South Korea) and earned an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI).

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