Marie B Gauthiez, Installation for Jardin Intérieur at Transformer (Washington, DC), 2025
Photographed by Vivian Marie Doering
Mixed media
Artworks featured in the installation: “Please save me,” “Attributional Error 4,” “Blue Mountain,” and “Tilt your head back”
Courtesy of the artist
Artist Website, Instagram
the mouth was too wide
the begging mouth
of the clouded crystal vase
was too wide for the bouquet
the stems all flopped to one side
bruising
she thought she had picked enough
enough, a minnow between her fingers
glittering quickly and always
away
her clumsy hands
her expectation
fumbling the moon
dropping the moon
the moon cracked
on the roof pitch
oozed yellow light down the house
the house pressed her
hand against its glass
she pressed infinity into four taut walls
timid knuckle knocking
on her neck
she worked her feet into the creaks of old longing
older than her
for months she’d been walking
(knock knock)
across pine needles
looking for
pine needles
she’d gotten the tattoo
with a singular intention:
to entice
a singular thumb
to graze admiringly across
her wrist
she pushed
wrinkles off the
pilled
electric blanket on the bed
her pilled body
swaying across the
room
how now
the room
the cord dangling
at the foot
there was no outlet
close enough
to ever make it
hot