Passage and Portal, Sunny Nestler

 

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Passage and Portal
by Sunny Nestler

The actions we must take to slow a pandemic can become concentrated anxiety, gripping the collective guts a little tighter every day. A tangled knot; embodied uncertainty, and a portal; a looking glass; the possible futures that exist on the other side. Tubes lead into the feeling of time, expanding to step through a portal, and stretching over a threshold very slowly and very carefully.

Passage and Portal is a mixture of collage, drawing and painting melded together with the risograph medium. A glimpse into the perspective of Sunny Nestler who lives with an immune disease that affects their digestive system, throttling their upper cerebral-brain and lower gut-brain into overdrive. 

Edition of 150
8×10″, 60 pages, Spiral Bound, 4c
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
ISBN – 978-1-989428-10-8
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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Published with deep gratitude for those whose support and contributions made this book possible –  my podmate, my arts communities both local and remote, and my friends and family for their encouragement. Special thanks to Judah Schulte for the cone worm’s Latinized name.

ARTIST BIO

Sunny Nestler is a grateful guest on unceded Coast Salish territories belonging to the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Their visual art practice is rooted in drawing, and studies mechanisms of biological life using a process that mimics DNA replication and mutation. Their subject matter cross-pollinates biological processes, for example the growth of an organism, or the changing interpretation of biological gender markers. 

Their past work includes collaborative animation, community-led arts programming, a recent municipal commission, thirteen years of managing community bike shops, and nine years of teaching university-level fine art and science. They are dedicated to advocating for more accessible arts spaces, and empowering people who are under-represented in those spaces. 

Sunny is a co-founder of the Tempe Zine Fest (2010) and was an exhibitor in the first Underground Publisher’s Convention (Phoenix, 2009). They regularly table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair and other artists’ book exchanges.

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