A Heart Has Roots:

Performance as prayer.

2022

On September 7, 2019, I lost my archives to a senseless act of vandalism. I lost 30 years worth of artwork. A Heart Has Roots is my first performance since that loss. 

The title and much of the concept for A Heart Has Roots is taken from my poem "Driving a car that's not mine":

I finally have a pencil I can write with

and this torrent of words has to drip out

because I know what water can do now.

There are many ways to destroy a home

and I have experienced most of them.

A heart has roots

that grow out the bottom of feet.

Mine are trailing behind me

because of my sadness.

Vines and small flowers,

woven on the floor

sweeping it.

A Heart Has Roots was performed as part of the First Annual Primal Trust Living Our Values Variety Show Extravaganza.

Special thanks to Rose Evans-Lombe, Linden Little, my fellow LOV producers: Alina Bachmann, Steve Connolly, and Dovida Goodman, and the Primal Trust community. 

A Heart Has Roots was photographed by Rose Evans-Lombe and Marianne Evans-Lombe and video captured by Alina Bachmann.