sculpture, photography, videography
What is it to stay within a place?
Peering out, speaking out, rustling amongst the leaves.
Does my body eventually join the earth, to play amongst the soil, bored by worms, and returning slowly, spreading out and joining everything?
Staying… staying still and only hearing,
seeing, only listening to those around you.
Do the trees speak to one another? Are there last words?
an I love you before falling over and embracing one another permanently, everlasting, nevermore.
This piece plays with the fragility and delicacy of natural materials, drawing a connection to familial and feminine practices of sewing and interweaving. As the piece decomposed, the project gained a coloring and patina that wasn’t initially explored, but the holes and sharper edges that the piece took on with time added meaning of time and change. The images that were created played with the natural environment, with a sharp contrast between the stillness of the body, something out of place, and the background and mask within their environment, moving continuously