Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock
July 24th - August 7th, 2025
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Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock is the culmination of my research-creation practice over two years. It encompasses the (re)connecting with Land through found colour from rock, the mark-making by transformation, the repurposing of found materials to echo geological formations, and the re-enactment of deep time using paper pulp. Creating modular, repeated, yet distinct, components that build into a larger whole, the work expresses the universe’s sculptural tendencies. To feel as a rock is to have awareness without self. To feel as a rock is to embrace and contribute to geological and other nonhuman processes. To feel as a rock is to escape human notions of time. This work has been made possible by the support from family, friends, and colleagues; my supervisor Sheri Osden Nault, my partner, my kids, my cohort, the ecologies I inhabit, and the enduring caretaking of the Aanishnabe, Haudenosaunee, Neutral peoples, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron. I am grateful to share this place with a diverse world of flora, fauna, fungi, microbes, soil, and rocks, each with kin’s own life and entangled relationships. Kin's presence continue to guide my art practice.