As well as writing this, I am working on a long-form, creative non-fictional, tending auto-theoretical prose poem (mind-blown emoji). It is often necessary to string together caveating words like that in an attempt to find the character of the genre in a world which requires boxes to be filled and summaries to be presented. This leads to the book I have written (out now with Bloomsbury), which muses on and celebrates textual hybridity. The book brings together many of my interests and key moments of literary inspiration and inquiry in relation to working in the mutable and fertile space around the normative machines of artistic and literary categorisation in the making of hybrid forms.
Today I am a writer, but the broader category of ‘artist’ is a more suitable framing, telling a broader truth and being inclusive of the multiple forms of practice that interest me. I have spent many years wielding pencils, cameras, paint, paper, found objects, glue, and thread as well as computer keyboards and smart-phone notes—in overlap.
A hybrid approach is expansive, necessitating a well-honed intuition and editing skills. I work with shiny fragments, problems, and inevitably errors as my interesting material, making interim solutions that veer near the appearance of completion at times while articulating the fact that everything is work-in-progress.
Tasha Haines PhD, Dip. TT, MFA, BFA
Tasha Haines 
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