Title
Five letters to Georgia O'Keeffe: Or, meditations on dying in southwestern landscapes
Abstract
In her lifetime, US American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) wrote thousands of letters to those closest to her. However, she relied on painting as her primary public voice. This essay takes the form of five letters, composed through posthumanist performative writing, addressed to O'Keeffe. I work through the process of experiencing the death of my father in a material landscape as it was painted by O'Keeffe. The southwestern landscapes O'Keeffe painted were the same landscapes in which my father and I negotiated material relations to live a life of what Donna Haraway calls “significant otherness.”
Department(s)
Communication
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.1.146
Keywords
Georgia O'Keeffe, Landscape, Loss, Nature writing, Performative writing
Publication Date
3-1-2021
Recommended Citation
Simmons, Jake. "Five Letters to Georgia O’Keeffe: Or, Meditations on Dying in Southwestern Landscapes." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 10, no. 1 (2021): 146-154.
Journal Title
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
