(description) A CONCEPTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR COLLECTIVE CREATIVE STUDY AND EXPLORATION. (narrative) IF WE UNDERSTAND LIVING AS THE IRON THAT SHARPENS THE CRAFT, COMPOSITE MATTER IS A CALL TO DISCOVER THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE BETWEEN THE EMBODIED AND SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE OF OUR OWN ALIVENESS (WORDS, SIGHTS, SOUNDS, MATERIALS, ENCOUNTERS) AND THE WORLDS WE MOLD WITH OUR WORK–THAT SOFT AND TENDER PLACE BEFORE THE MAKING. TO MAKE SACRED ENCOUNTERS AS A PRACTITIONER OF LIFE AND STUDENT OF HUMANITY. (consideration) IT IS ALSO AN URGING TO TAKE HEED OF THE LANGUAGE BETWEEN ARTISTS WHEN WE CONSUME EACH OTHER’S WORK: MY WORK SPEAKS TO YOU, MINE TO YOURS, BOTH OUR EXPOSED FLESH TO ONE ANOTHER, ONE YEARNING, TO ANOTHER. EXCHANGE, NOT EXTRACTION. (definition) COMPOSITE: A STRUCTURAL MATERIAL THAT GAINS ITS STRENGTH FROM A COMBINATION OF COMPLEMENTARY MATERIALS. (assertion) THAT IS WHAT I IMAGINE THESE EXPERIENCES, THESE OBSERVATIONS, THIS WITNESSING OF THE CREATIVE INSIDES OF OTHERS AND OURSELVES, CAN DO. THEY CAN BE THAT WHICH BUOYS AND BOLSTERS US, TO MAKE US COMPOSITE MATTER– TO MAKE OUR CREATIVITY A STRONG THING. TO MAKE THE CREATIVE BODY CORPORAL AND BUILD ITS BONES FROM THE MATERIALS AROUND IT. (declaration) TO BE NOT WHAT WE DO OR WHERE WE ARE GOING BUT THE VERY MATERIAL WE ARE MADE OF. TO BE A THING THAT LETS US TEND TO THE GUTTURAL GROANINGS OF OUR OWN DEEP DOWN, THAT CALLS TO US IN PERSISTENT, MERCILESS FEROCITY, A PASSION WITH SUCH HEAT THAT BURNS SO THAT IF WE DO NOT FORGE IT WITH OUR HANDS WE OURSELVES MAY BECOME FIRE. (conjuring) YES, WE WILL DO THE MAKING, WE WILL. (invocation) BUT LET US ALSO DO THE LIVING.