Art. A book of collages. To begin each of these works I waited at a precipice: I slowed myself intentionally, tarried as a way of honoring what I was about to enter. There is materiality in the form which exists before the form that will be made; there are ways to dramatize upcoming linkage. Pause catalyzes future force.

our bodies are beauty inducers is a fantastic and fantastical exploration of gender and the physical ground upon which it plays. hastain's words explode the amorphous domain where bodies and beauty meet. Electrifying and kinetic, hastain's work shatters and reassembles the physical into intersecting recombinant zones of meaning: the physical induces beauty in the eyes of the other and true beauty received by the other removes otherness...