SEE / SAW

<p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)>SEE / SAW is a collection of poems accompanied by ink drawings that engage with themes of vision myopia and dream.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)>Artist and writer Suzy Sureck takes us into a childhood defined by myopia helping us to understand how her personality and way of being in the world were boundaried by blur and intimacy of vision.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)>As her eyesight deteriorated to a focal range of 1 corrective lenses were no longer possible. As a change presented itself she was both elated and terrified of this shift from what was familiar though no longer tenable.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)>At the book's center the title poem </span><em style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)>See Saw</em><span style=color: rgba(23 23 23 1)> finds colorful ways to move forward despite conflicting emotions. Engagement with nature offers clarity and the collection ends as a dream comes true - her ability to see unfettered in an aquatic world.</span></p>