2025/06/18

Four Artists Channel Octavia E. Butler’s End Times Hyperempathy

“Artists, with their unique attunement to material fallibility, share a kinship with Butler’s protagonist, whose condition of hyperempathy is a metaphor for the role of the artist at the end of the world: to absorb the pains and pleasures of their environs and translate them into something new.”
– Artist and writer Jessica Simmons-Reid, connecting American Artist, Firelei Báez, Alicia Piller, and Connie Samaras to Octavia E. Butler’s vision of transformative care.
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