recent work
Birth Weight: 8 lbs, 4 ozThese stones were gathered in Prince William Sound -- on Alutiiq/Sugpiaq land -- after hauling marine debris from a remote beach. The swaddling and suturing is a further act of care and tending for objects from the natural world using traditional tools of domesticity and repair, an acknowledgement that this is one kind of mothering act placed beside the universal emotional and physical labor involved in loving something deeply. Weighed together, the components of this work are a little heavier than an average newborn. Impossible to hold all at once without dropping some to the floor.
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birth ropeAn improbable midwifery tool or the aftermath of trauma, this suspended piece represents a relic for a literal and emotional unmoored state. Coated with a slick insistency over a deeply abraded fatigue -- both beautiful and terrible in the context of women’s work -- it’s the object we haul from within ourselves to complete an otherworldly task. The tether for our fumbling return.
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