THIS EPHEMERAL BODY
These video works are meditations on death, loss, chaos, transformation, the corporeal body, nature, wilderness, sacredness, and the metaphysics of flow. I am exploring these rather big themes through the study of small movements.
I have learned this past summer, that I cannot seem to separate death from loss… or from time, for that matter. Neither can I separate the story from the affect, nor the body from the story. They are all so intricately connected. Each seems dependent on the other. For these reasons, I am experimenting with the inclusion of writing, and overlaying the images with my physical voice. This creates more of a documentary like effect. In fact, I like to think of this work as a small venture into the fascinating genre of wildlife documentary. After all, life itself is wild, and wilderness is to be found everywhere and anywhere, especially in our hearts and minds.
This work draws connections between the Confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, (where, according to Blackfoot mythology, Napi created the first humans) and the Milk River, (along which the Blackfoot have their sacred resting place). These are rather important points to note considering the nature of the work. Both locations are in Southern Alberta, Canada on Treaty 7 land whose First Peoples I acknowledge with respect and gratitude for this marvellous place where I live and work.
These video works are meditations on death, loss, chaos, transformation, the corporeal body, nature, wilderness, sacredness, and the metaphysics of flow. I am exploring these rather big themes through the study of small movements.
I have learned this past summer, that I cannot seem to separate death from loss… or from time, for that matter. Neither can I separate the story from the affect, nor the body from the story. They are all so intricately connected. Each seems dependent on the other. For these reasons, I am experimenting with the inclusion of writing, and overlaying the images with my physical voice. This creates more of a documentary like effect. In fact, I like to think of this work as a small venture into the fascinating genre of wildlife documentary. After all, life itself is wild, and wilderness is to be found everywhere and anywhere, especially in our hearts and minds.
This work draws connections between the Confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, (where, according to Blackfoot mythology, Napi created the first humans) and the Milk River, (along which the Blackfoot have their sacred resting place). These are rather important points to note considering the nature of the work. Both locations are in Southern Alberta, Canada on Treaty 7 land whose First Peoples I acknowledge with respect and gratitude for this marvellous place where I live and work.