Collapse is a transformative moment where our deepest desires to be set free become alive.
An installation was a flower shop;
this flower shop was a bedtime story;
the protagonist was a heroic plant;
this exhibition was a warning sign
Heterotopias are what Michél Foucault describes as spaces that exist so that we can maintain our perceived Utopias. Examples are schools; bathrooms; mental institutions; nursing homes; logged forests, compost piles. Backstages are exciting places, messy spaces, chaotic, exclusive spaces for those self excluding.
Sometimes these works are an ashtray where
our wildest dreams,
and deepest fears go,
to become nothing,
or nothing of themselves
In this work,
sometimes we see reflections,
and sometimes we do not
Belief systems are what turn Old Growth Virgin Forests into toilet paper.
Sacred plants become weeds in shifting contexts
We build fire roads over rivers; we build dams
Safety is a violent nursery rhyme that we tell ourselves,
while driving on asphalt,
powered by gas