A productive body

exo skeletal and exo vasculated by culture and technology, 

I am writing to be ingested. 

Reading as if ingesting, 

reading as farming. 

I am thinking about the corpus (any distinguishable body of tissues). 

Exo skeletal structures of the subject engage in light sensitive production and maintenance.

Exo vascular structures of the environment within the subject engage in heat work.

I see myself in this sprightly inanimate, intelligent vegetable force.

tissu(ed), tool(ed).

Orthodox seeds and recalcitrants,

There is much to learn about seed traits that contribute to storage longevity.

—Rob Rhee

Rob Rhee is an artist, writer and an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Visual Art program at the University of Washington. His work has been exhibited locally at the Portland Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Hedreen Gallery, and the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at the Hunterdon Art Museum, White Columns, the Fort Worth Contemporary Gallery and the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, as well as in the 10th Berlin Biennale, the 2011 Changwon Biennale, and at the Ilmin Museum of Art, in Seoul, South Korea. In 2018 he was awarded the Korea Arts Foundation of America Award for Visual Art and was nominated for a Stranger Genius award in 2016. His blog, Tabletop, was Short-Listed for an Arts Writers Grant by Creative Capital / the Andy Warhol Foundation and his critical writing on art has been published in Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, Arcade, Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Letters, and La Norda.