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HARKEY FAMILY COLLECTION, DALLAS. COURTESY THE SUSAN TE KAHURANGI KING TRUST AND MARLBOROUGH, NEW YORK AND LONDON. SUSAN TE KAHURANGI KING UNTITLED, CIRCA 2008-2016 "Sometime between the ages of four and nine years, Susan gradually stopped speaking — not suddenly or abruptly, but over a period when she would still occasionally sing in bed at night. Her 'isolation' has allowed her to methodically create an entire analogous world through her work. By spending time reviewing the drawings and their chronology, I began to discover how seemingly nonobjective concentric shapes have evolved from the truncated vestiges of her earlier appropriated cartoon characters. It's also possible to find visual lists or catalogs/indexes of certain objects, which get reconfigured and distorted beyond recognition in subsequent pictures. There was also a roughly 15-year period when Susan ceased drawing. With the encouragement of her family, she resumed again in 2008, picking up nearly where she left off. Just like this moment in time, Susan's recent drawing speaks to us about resuming life after an interval of interruption." — Chris Byrne 48