Matt Mullins

Illustrator/motion artist Cheryl Gross and Poet Nicelle Davis, create a grotesque peep-show that opens the velvet curtains on what Mikhail Bakhtin refers to as “the carnival.” The carnival is the creation of a second world—a second life—a second self. In the Circus of You, chronicles a woman’s journey into her alternate reality. In the big-top-of-the-self, she faces her issues with sanity, motherhood, monogamy, divorce, creative / destructive impulses, appropriation, and ultimately beauty. The poems and images create a novel-in-verse where dead pigeons talk, clowns hide in the chambers of the heart, and the human body is turned inside out.