Clanging Symbols (eight bells all is well), 2022
cymbals, dried kombucha mother, hazelnuts, altar candles, amaranth (also known as love-lies-bleeding), rope, sutures, bells, torched wood, fire retardant string
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." Cymbals are unable to resound, silenced by a kombucha mother scoby. Other items reference the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich, who was the first woman on record to publish a book, created the term 'oneing', denoting unity between all living things, and referred to God as a Mother, which was blasphemous at the time. Other symbols reference Joan of Arc, and plants with anthropomorphized names.
