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                                   Summer Jade Leavitt
 









 


Table of Contents


 
SELECTED WORKS

We Were Like This Once.......................1
Closer to Nature....................................2
This Bitter Earth....................................3
No New Pain (The Tool Library).........4
Ominous Smoke Circle.........................5
Untitled (The Seventh Sun Comes).....6                           
Language is Leaving Me .......................7
Spit and Swish (DO NOT
SWALLOW).........................................8
Mad Girl’s Crush Tweet.......................9
On Mutation, Doppelbanging.............10
100 Hour Cleanse.............................11
Summoning........................................ 12
Phantom Penetration.........................13
Off the Record................................... 14
Untitled (Homage to Oscar Wilde’s
Grave or Making Myself into
a Queer Monument)...........................15
Calling the Body I Cannot See...........16
1+1=3..................................................17
Untitled (On Air)................................18
Untitled (wife & wife) ........................19
Untitled (One Hour of Breath).........20
Untitled (A Portrait)...........................21
Untitled (Kvass or The Blood of My
Ancestors.............................................22
Untitled (Omen) ................................23

Selected Photography Work...............24

THE QUEER THEORY LIBRARY

WRITING SAMPLES

Closer to Nature...............................25
Lipstick Traces..................................26

ABOUT



No New Pain (The Tool Library)

Written by Dani Janae, No New Pain is a series of poems made in response to Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House, commissioned by The Queer Theory Library. Janae’s poems were then engraved on a set of hand tools, made to be functional and available to the public as a tool library that can be checked out for use and for reading. 

Engraved handtools, book, library cards.

Installed at Deering Estate for the 2023 Spring Contemporary exhibition Closer to Nature. 
2021/2023