#aboundlesswomb

Megan Grace Harned (b. 1988) is an art writer, athlete, and environmentalist from the rural east end of Long Island. She graduated from Stony Brook University with degrees in Art History & Criticism, and Sustainability Studies. Despite being drawn like a moth to flame by Portland’s burgeoning art scene, low-impact lifestyle, and Ultimate Frisbee community she would like it be noted that she is not a “hipster”.   Megan encourages the reader to look closer at the work through formal and historical analysis.  By drawing attention to the specificity of the artist’s creative intent and its cultural context, her art writing seeks to deepen the viewer’s experience by eliciting a personal connection to the work. 

I often feel that I don't know myself. Though I am fortunate to know more of my birth life than many other adoptees, more is still less than the whole truth. Knowing "more" is still like trying to read a story without the full text. While some struggle to build words out of letters, and others manage sentences out of words, none of us can aspire toward prose. I can't ever reconstruct fully those first few pages of my story. Each gap between what I've been told, what I've learned, and what I've pieced together is marked by an "everlasting why". For all that I've shouted a thousand times "Yes!" in response to those whys I still feel that I lack the means to know myself, without which I feel as though I don't have the means to know others.