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Panspermia

free standing ceramic figure, charcoal, ink, graphite, 6’x 24”x 24”, 2020

pan all, sperma – seed - a theoretical origin of life on earth from a meteorite brought seed.

Using the carnal empathy of the body as an identifier of experiences of interconnectivity and crisis, this form explores the idea that emergence is preceded by a rupture from a critical impact. 

The tall, cocooned, spool‑like form recalls the artist’s experience growing up with a mother who made a living through sewing,  domestic labour historically coded as women’s work, and as a single parent and head of the household, transformed it into a source of strength and survival; the thread‑spool form echoes early memories of the domestic space where the spool is both lifeline and tightening grip, a line that connects and binds, a place of belonging that is also a trap and a role that can feel impossible to escape, yet is slowly transformed across generations. 

The tangible and visceral sensitivity of the material manifests an inner landscape, while it also moves in the circular pattern of time between human and nature, past and present, part and whole.



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Installation for Checklist

online exhibition, May 31st, 2020

Sound: Personal recording of the abundant insect choir at the catacombs in the Etruscan City of the Dead, Tarquinia, Italy, July 3, 2019.

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