Traverse, an art and literary project by Laurence Carr and Power Boothe

The Traverse Project, the creation of artist Power Boothe and writer Laurence Carr, was the product of many years of discussion, book lending, gallery shows, dinner preps and pondering each other’s work. The defining moment occurred when Carr thumbed through one of Boothe’s sketchbooks: page after page of 8 inch by 8 inch paintings and drawings. Months later, Carr sent Boothe a series of 8-line pieces of writing: poems, micro-essays, and unidentifiable forms. These pieces morphed into an early draft of Traverse, an anthropological dig into the culture, writings, artwork and cosmology of a people who live in the past, present and future simultaneously. Traverse is their collective archive, revealed to a contemporary artist and writer.