New Writing: 'Sustained' / As part of artist Fra Beecher's 'Body of Work'

Sustained – Fra Beecher

I was recently commissioned to write two creative pieces for the artist Fra Beecher relating to her Body of Work looking at the experience of being an artist's model.
Susie Wild Sustained Scars? I have many, but when I disrobe and stand before the horseshoe of easels for the first time I wonder which they will see. Some are obvious: the playground knees, the birthmarks, removed, that have grown as I have. One above my right breast fading beneath a new sticky-outy mole. One on my left temple, often hidden by a fringe or a side-parting. [...]

You can read one of the pieces 'Sustained' and others by Christina Thatcher and Steven Kenwood online.

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