“serpentwithfeet is a mantra,” Josiah Wise explains. “It’s about reminding myself to embrace and celebrate my femininity, to possess my fluidity, and to marry it with thunder.” If the image of the serpent is biblical, then Wise’s creation acknowledges the poetry of religion, but intentionally walks away from the dogma he experienced as a churchgoing child in Baltimore.

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