Understanding the interconnectedness of all living things on our planet is essential as we accept the reality that we are living at a vital precipice in history; a time when our very livelihood as a species requires a massive healing of our relationship to the earth and all its inhabitants. As an individual artist, I feel that the best way to portray these macro connections is through shared personal experiences in micro environments. Specifically using the symbol of the human (and animal) body as microcosmic mirror of our planet, our Mother Earth. 

 

Considering earth as mother has a history of both enlightened and pointedly problematic reaction. Personally, this association has made me question the very archetype of the Mother and the idea of maternal energy as an embodied, not necessarily biological, experience. As a woman who is not a mother, I’ve recently realized that my practice approaches the maternal in abstract and unexpected ways. I want to delve into this idea of Redefining the Mother Archetype with more intent and focus. 

 

I am primarily an installation and video artist, however, the video work I create is almost exclusively myself performing for the camera. I want to expand my creative practice to further explore my research through performance art without the mediation of the camera. Through attempts at re-integrating myself with the wilderness and capturing the likes of both my human self and animal counterparts, I will attempt to forge lost connections. In all of my work, I am interested in the possibility of reclaiming our innate animality, of re-wilding the human, of attempts at un-becoming. For this residency I propose to continue exploring these themes to create embodied performances of the dualistic corporeal and spiritual existence of humans as nature.

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