PositiveHyperallergicThis is among the book’s greatest strengths: to attune its readers to the nuances of loneliness. Radtke interrogates this pervasive but often shame-filled aspect of the human condition through stories that move between wide-ranging decades and contexts, including her own experiences living in Wisconsin, Las Vegas, and New York, and pop cultural representations ... In the most visually arresting drawings, we see wordless, full-page images of one person overwhelmed by their environments, often tinted in cool blues or greens. But, there were times that I longed for the text to linger with Radtke’s narrative, to more intimately dissect her own obsession with loneliness. Her self-portraits also felt drawn at a slight remove; on a few occasions, I compared them to photographs on the internet, to confirm the drawing was of her. In the end, I still appreciated the space Seek You’s fragmented structure leaves for readers to fill with their own self-interrogations. I felt rewarded when I returned to the image of Radtke within the Kusama installation and noticed her use of a rare warm yellow, which radiates across her figure. I took this to imply that connecting with another human through her art offers not so much a solution to feeling lonely but a kind of solace in which we can both lose and find ourselves.
