“Connie Saems possesses the ability to enter fully into another artist’s imaginative world, working in true sympatico. When her subject is swimming, she swims; what emerges on the page feels fluid, buoyant, and alive. In collaboration with poet Wendy Drexler’s Harvest of What Remains, Saems creates visual echoes of Drexler’s words that resemble neural pathways and a mind both scattering and striving to hold itself together. Her drawings throughout the text and the luminous watercolors of the cover deepen the book’s emotional terrain. Together, Saems and Drexler offer a visually and lyrically immersive collaboration that renders a profoundly disorienting disease with tenderness and inventive power.”

Christine Bess Jones, Limb of Water, One Bird Press, 2025