M E T A X U    is Susan's long work-in-progress exploring the model-artist transaction throughout history.  Told from a dual perspectives of artist and model, it stages events of what Jean Piaget called figurative thought, or non-logical forms of intelligence, which transpire in the life-drawing studio.  Through its layering of scientific, aesthetic, historical, and theoretical  perspectives, it suggests that the image-making of persons offers an irreversible contour of thought which eschews the public imagination of the artist and muse.  It is a meditation, a documentary, a memoir-- and finally--a verse intervention.  The holistic experience of the figure in art (whose popularity has dwindled among critics and artists alike) acquires a unique temporality, and the double-bind of "the male gaze" is here circumvented through shifts in focus, allowing an always already vanishing order--of error, blur, and difference--to intervene. 

Ten pages of M E T A X U have been selected by Sir Christopher Ricks for publication in the anthology Joining Music with Reason (Waywiser Press 2010).