Cowboy Jane

About

Cowboy Jane is looking for the right word, the right tool, the right diagram; pushing language, harvesting research, and engaging in conversation, the writing explores how new textures can edit the word/tool/diagram from one piece to the next. Embedded in the text is a looseness in prose, using language to work around gaps and jump through loops. Here, it appears that interiority is not necessarily the aim of the game: sometimes to look to the exterior perimeter of what is present can allow for a closer look at the subject being held in your hands.

The flow between fiction and non-fiction is sped up, rapidly overflowing onto the page. Ecosystems built within the text fill up then quietly drain, only to replenish and slowly alter the landscape of the chosen subject, through a repetitive erosion of expected images and beliefs. The body as political is a significant element here: the body in flow, stretching out and shrinking down, moving through topics and groping at each word, trying to affix to something. The child in I Finally Found My Baby and a Baby Might be Mine is a ‘Second Body’, both a physical and imagined presence that holds power politically and intimately.

There is an inherited context sitting in front of the work; to write queerness is to wade through and acknowledge an already expected style, canon and series of references and ideas. Cowboy Jane hopes that their work allows this context to frame I Finally Found My Baby and a Baby Might be Mine, but not to define the writing. It is important to experience the work as a call to touch a body, biological, geological, physical or metaphorical.

Cowboy Jane is a writer and artist based in London, UK
Contact: bella@cowboyjanestudio.com

Above images are taken from the Independent Research Project written by Cowboy Jane, I Finally Found My Baby and a Baby Might be Mine (2024)