"Rader articulates what we all know but often overlook: that our obsession with the materiality of text and paint–and frequent appraisal of these media as unfit to adequately represent our lives and experiences–resonates deeply with our anxiety about our own physicality, our own finite and incommensurate bodies. Rader reminds us that, as we seek to construct verbally our essentialized self-portraits, we only acquire new, textual bodies, complete with all the earthly encumbrances and stark inadequacies of the old ones. We remain terrified to "wake out of / the wrong body and walk uncovered / into the mistaken world."–Maggie Millner, ZYZZYVA
