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origins:  ohio / 81 / earth / re-imagine / re-claim / studio greenhouse / anchor yard / open / listening

when i create an object or alter an ecology in three dimensional space, i am admitting that language is failing—the ink pen dried to ashy black, the sturdy type letters- brittle fences / i am looking to feel connected to my body; i am looking for my breath and my hands in the material; i am looking for the landscape in the material; i am seeking out an exchange (political, personal, ecological & aesthetic).  i begin my study & practice of visual arts as a poet / i have always been a gatherer, a recycler of image, object & language.  my poems reuse their materials— the same cut hair or linseed oil appearing again and again as a condition, a way for a reader (and for me) to travel through the poems—a way to remind myself of the impossibility (politically and personally) of ever really arriving

thank you:    marina abromovic, inger christensen, stacey waite, luce irigaray, ana mendieta, sophie calle, rei nato, sally mann, christopher holmes, carl phillips, rebecca horn, maya deren, collier schorr, kate bornstein, benjamin kamen, ingmar bergman, jane blocker, bei dao, joseph bueys, roni horn, antoni tapies, francesca woodman, rineke dijkstra, cecilia vicuna

interests:    installation art, sculpture, landscape design, interior architecture, body-centered performance art, queer theory,  poetics, ecology, light design, walking meditation, education,  painting, bookbinding, fields & fauna, sustainable agriculture, cutting hair, grass roots activism, ikeybana, pedagogy, herbs, drawings, archiving, letting go, nomadic architecture, intentional community, altars, driftwood, intuition, currents, phenomenology, gender warriors, contemporary art history, sound, folklore, bamboo, fragmented narratives, recycling, strips of film, ink stones, solitude, alternative energy, trail work, stains, burlap, vessles, avacados, succulents, social justice, my sisters, wandering, dirt