TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a memoir / grimoire of falling together in time and going forth by day 2023 -on going work in process multi media video excerpt: 8 minutes text and images, size variable
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a memoir/grimoire of falling together in time and going forth by day is a process -heavy multimedia project (video, text, still images, installation and performance) a rose out of the collective artist project Delisted, stewarded by evolutionary biologist and poet Jennifer Calkins, who describes it as "an emergent project dedicated to communal, creative, and essential grief work in relation to more than human bodies that were once, but are possibly no longer in the world. "The entry point for all human participants in this project was the name of a species proposed for 'delisting' under the U.S. Endangered Species Act – we each were assigned a species that was to be removed from the US government's official list of beings considered endangered and therefore worthy of protection, due to no human going on record as having recently witnessed them –while also not being declared officially extinct.
Calkins asked that we co-create with this species: connect and be with and bring attention and relationship to them. The process of my seeking relationship included ritual and pilgrimage inwhich my own personal grieving, healing, and regeneration intermingled with my devotions and acts of restitution paying respects to animistecosystems, amongst general consideration of the sorrows and bad actors of the Anthropocene and mass extinction underway, while connecting to a being of liminal embodiment and watery tutelary and patron spirits.
Calkins asked that we co-create with this species: connect and be with and bring attention and relationship to them. The process of my seeking relationship included ritual and pilgrimage inwhich my own personal grieving, healing, and regeneration intermingled with my devotions and acts of restitution paying respects to animistecosystems, amongst general consideration of the sorrows and bad actors of the Anthropocene and mass extinction underway, while connecting to a being of liminal embodiment and watery tutelary and patron spirits.
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Artist Statement:
My process-centered multimedia interdisciplinary artistic practice is often site-focused and arising from encounters with environments. Informed by Mytho/psychogeography, folk magic ritual, divination practices, Deep Listening, and pilgrimage walking, it is oracular, ritualistic, and animist in nature and reframes the human gaze and narrative, defying object, commodity, extraction -based models for artistic practice.
Combining photography, video, sculpture, site-specific installation, text, drawing, ritual-performance, in most of these operations, I always include at least one element where Chance and other forces can show their hand. In drawing and writing, I use tarot cards, dice, and divination systems. In photography, video, and installation, I work with analogue reflective surfaces (flexible mirror and bodies of water) that move without and beyond my control. In video, I use only found sound and moving images and sounds are recorded as I wander and way find the landscape, making pilgrimage along paths divined, dérived, and following others' tracks of research and devotion, engaging in foraging, meditation and spontaneous ritual to immerse in conversation and experience of partnership with an environment.
My process-centered multimedia interdisciplinary artistic practice is often site-focused and arising from encounters with environments. Informed by Mytho/psychogeography, folk magic ritual, divination practices, Deep Listening, and pilgrimage walking, it is oracular, ritualistic, and animist in nature and reframes the human gaze and narrative, defying object, commodity, extraction -based models for artistic practice.
Combining photography, video, sculpture, site-specific installation, text, drawing, ritual-performance, in most of these operations, I always include at least one element where Chance and other forces can show their hand. In drawing and writing, I use tarot cards, dice, and divination systems. In photography, video, and installation, I work with analogue reflective surfaces (flexible mirror and bodies of water) that move without and beyond my control. In video, I use only found sound and moving images and sounds are recorded as I wander and way find the landscape, making pilgrimage along paths divined, dérived, and following others' tracks of research and devotion, engaging in foraging, meditation and spontaneous ritual to immerse in conversation and experience of partnership with an environment.
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