Mckenna Goade



Artwork

“We become-with each other or not at all”

“As I let go of what to me was the world”

“Slipping out of myself again”

“I (give) myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love”

“Suffering, like a stone...(around my neck, deep inside me)”

Death Rattle

That Which is Read by the Body

A Porous Assemblage

For Your Reclined Body


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Essays + Other Writing
“as I let go of what to me was the world”*, 2026

Food Waste Compost (Apple Cores, Arugula, Avocado Skin, Banana Peels, Cardboard, Casava Starch Bioplastic, Compostable Bags, Drink Holders, Flower Petals, Flower Stems, Former Algae-Bioplastic Experiments, Former Peach Tongue Tattoo Poems, Found Branches, Ginger Skin, Napkins, Orange Peels, Oyster Mushrooms, Paper Towels, Parsley Stems, Pine Needles From Home, Pistachio Shells, Woodchips, ongoing), Compost Bio-Composite (Sifted Compost, Agar Agar Binder), Red Wigglers, Acrylic Tubes, Stainless Steel Tubes, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Rolled Steel Sheet, Steel Rod and Flat Stock, Matte Medium, Silicone Plugs.

*Excerpt from Clarise Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.




“as I let go of what to me was the world”*, 2026

Food Waste Compost (Apple Cores, Arugula, Avocado Skin, Banana Peels, Cardboard, Casava Starch Bioplastic, Compostable Bags, Drink Holders, Flower Petals, Flower Stems, Former Algae-Bioplastic Experiments, Former Peach Tongue Tattoo Poems, Found Branches, Ginger Skin, Napkins, Orange Peels, Oyster Mushrooms, Paper Towels, Parsley Stems, Pine Needles From Home, Pistachio Shells, Woodchips, ongoing), Compost Bio-Composite (Sifted Compost, Agar Agar Binder), Red Wigglers, Acrylic Tubes, Stainless Steel Tubes, Stainless Steel Bolts, Cold Rolled Steel Sheet, Steel Rod and Flat Stock, Matte Medium, Silicone Plugs.
(Detail)


Right now, I’m wondering ...if contact is only an interruption, why do I so desire it?                    how to prevent agar and compost mixture from molding?                    if I saw lined paper in the clouds.                    how can I be without border?                    can watching these systems run trigger a response in the viewer that reminds them of witnessing death?                    can we compost "being"?                    am I permeable?                    what will the multitudes of bacteria that metabolize landfills make of their ingredients?                    how to be with what leaks.                    how to sit with the chemical, the bodily, the archival, as the mingle blur and stack.