Collage
Offerings to Death
Acrylic paint on canvas, wax, dried flowers, found organic materials (feathers, bones, snakeskins, shells, insects - none harmed)
Cyanotype
Svadhyaya: Self Portraiture as Self-Study
Svādhyāya is the Sanskrit word for self-study. It is also one of the niyamas (observances/tenets) of yoga practice. Through introspection, we can gain better understanding of ourselves, of both our conscious and subconscious, and thereby open ourselves up to a better understanding the world around us, tapping into the superconscious. The processes of both svadyaya and self-portraiture are that of discovery, grief, celebration, play, prayer, and poetry.
Video/Performance
re/birth
Through somatic movement, connection with nature, and communion with the elements, I perform an embodiment ritual— that of the cyclic, fluid quality of creation.
Formations of a Diasporic Body
This collaborative project is a laboratory and playground for a collectively imagined pilgrimage across time and space. Through burned etchings onto wood, analog collage, stop motion, words, sounds, movement, projection and performance, we return, as a fragmented collective body of shared lineage, to sacred sites of our ancestral past. Read more.
