Gender Noncompliant Poetry & Art

Spoons

White wall with a sink set in brown wood placed on the lower left. Above the sink are five buckets with spoons in them. Next to the sink is a crock for larger spoons. On the right side of the wall is a poem: Spoons Do you have the spoons for this? Can I lend you some of mine? Are you feeding only others? Accepting help is fine. Find yourself the spoons that feed you, find the spoons that nourish. Open up to the spoons that serve you, they can only help you flourish. Find those spoons; we’ll feed each other. Encourage our collective wellbeing. So together we can grow stronger still and create a world more freeing.
Concept and creation by Mandamoonie and Guy Duke
(with original inspiration by Sarah Rowe)
Words by Guy Duke
Multimedia interactive piece

This piece was initially inspired by a comment made in a conversation between Sarah Rowe and Souther Recio: “You have to find the spoons that feed you.” This was developed into a poem by Guy Duke which Mandamoonie then helped blossom into the concept for an interactive art piece in which visitors to the exhibit take a spoon from the sink and write on the attached tag something that “feeds them”, ie one of those little things that keeps you going, something inspiring, something sustaining, or whatever they interpret that to mean to them. They then take their spoon and hang it on the wall above the sink or place it in the crock next to it. Ultimately, we all find inspiration and the means to move forward from different sources, but we are all in this together. Perhaps we can be each other’s spoons.

Original not for sale.

Available as print:
7.5″x8.5″

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