“Eco-interoception” is a tool I developed during my MFA to improve my perception of my body’s internal state through ecological learning. Post MFA, I want to use my tool, "eco-interoception," to consider how it might be used across different contexts, not only for myself, but for other artists, students, businesses and communities. What does it mean to become aware, embody and live out this understanding of interconnectivity? And why should we?
Throughout my exploration, I will highlight other artists thinking in similar ways. For me, Cecilia Vicuña explicitly does this work by visualizing the human relationship to land, and in doing so, inspires me to see a more urgent connectivity between my body and the earth. In the next few slides, you will see a comment from her on her "quipu" series, derived from an ancient form of writing and record-keeping used by the Incas and other Andean cultures. Within this work, she not only highlights our interdependence in current time, but with ancient cultures and the future. What I’m interested in exploring is what Cecilia does so well, asking us to look outside our human ways of being at other ways of existing to then become better humans. #ecointeroception #ecoarts #ecology #CeciliaVicuña #installationart #quipu #interdisciplinary #designthinking #biomimicry #interconnectivity
The microscopic circles are multiplying 🔬
A poem I wrote 5+ years ago feels particularly relevant again: 🌀
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Elemental worlds
If elements could talk, what would they say about the millions of things they support everyday?
Would they walk about the pain of contribution?
Would they breathe the beauty of the gathering?
Would they surmise the end of elemental being?
Would they construct a whole that forgets one piece?
Do things happen haphazardly in elemental worlds?
Do pieces come together effortlessly?
Does one element join another simply out of convenience?
Or is it magnetism, the pull of their one true elemental complement?
If elements could talk, they would tell me:
We must attend to the microcosms of our world.
We must befriend them.
We mustn’t forget where everything derives itself from, after
Joining, and rejoining, and joining again
Over and over, to create a mass of being.
We must attend to them.
We must notice them.
If elements could talk, they would tell me:
Envision the cup you hold, envision the elements within it.
View it as a world in itself, that tiny mug in your hand.
It can exist without you,
It can exist with you,
It can exist in your hands too.
Cellular Lines: project files
I started with prepared microscopy slides spanning three worlds: the human body cells (artery, vein, nerve, elastic tissue, a single giant motor neuron), the fungi (cup fungus, inky cap mushrooms, wheat rust, common molds), and plants (hornwort mid-sporulation, pine cone, pine stems young and old). In Photoshop, I brightened, enlarged, and overlaid them inside a circular frame that mirrors the view through a microscope’s lens … letting human nerve run through fungal gills, pine stems collage overtop arteries. It’s a multispecies exercise: a way of seeing ourselves as more connected to the other living things around us, in the hope that recognition becomes attunement. I made them colorful and far larger than a cell actually is because I want viewers to reorient (to find the beauty and joy in what’s usually hidden). From there, I generated new forms alongside mine with Photoshop AI…bringing artificial intelligence into the same web of interconnection within mycelia and nerve tissue.
What you’re seeing here are the JPGs, before they get printed on fiber and stitched to be installed on a wall.
Life renews without permission.
Artist @saradottererstudio takes us through her practice weaving nature into her art – giving her the permission and resilience to live in the middle, in the ecotone – which she calls the most generative place to be.
Swipe through for a glimpse of her art and reflections, and read the full essay in Somewhere;Together - link in bio.
I recently went back to @wludance to collab with my favorites @elliotreza@spicyrunaroll@kcoughd@jdayvvv — we had a blast celebrating 20 years of W&l dance and making some video art / dance together! Our learning: “non dancers” were afraid to dance when asked — but isn’t just walking down the street a form of dance? We tried to ask them their favorite moves but it was met with a lot of fear (despite a few brave souls) — what impact would more people being confidently in their bodies have I wonder?
A new project in progress looking at microscopic images of plants, fungi, and human cells — overlayed to create an organic quilt of sorts filled with circles of different human-plant-fungi amalgamations … revealing the color and beauty of the hidden world found at the cellular level… the diversity AND the similarities across species #scienceart #fiberart #installationart
