We wake in the middle of a life, hungry

Rebecca Camacho Presents

San Francisco, CA

The opening of Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly.” Rapturous and visceral, the poem is a metaphorical call and response engaging gluttony and hunger across multiple generations, positioning life as a ravenous and relentless experience and encouraging the reader to stay rooted to home and inherited culture, but also to fly, to embrace, to take a bite, to smother themselves in the world. Using Wong’s poem as a point of departure, We wake in the middle of a life, hungry features the work of Allana Clarke, Melissa Joseph, Young Joon Kwak, Griselda Rosas, and Stacy Lynn Waddell, five female-identifying artists whose practices explore selfhood, identity, memory, and subjectivity, and whose work draws inspiration from their communities and their collaborative relationships.