Seed Saver, 2024, 27x1x60", resin poured on the winter solstice, MRI images of artist’s brain, artist’s tape, queen anne’s lace and blackberry seeds from the Black Forest, descendant of wheat from the agricultural revolution, monarch wing from El Rosario sanctuary, mandorla almond, Julian’s hazelnuts, thistles from Tyhe & Kayhl, split leaf philodendron from Sarah’s 2018 cutting, snake skins, cosmic crisp apple, vintage purse, segment of rosary beads, chains, negative photos printed on transparency, torched wood, ink
What if Eve seed saved inside herself on the way out of Eden and the god(s) celebrated? Life proliferating beyond the garden walls? What kind of stories are most liberating and generative for the earth/body? Descartes spread the myth that we could fully understand living beings through singular dissection, rather than from within their context in a relational web with other beings. The myth that the body/earth/mind could ever fully be separate…piecing this exquisite corpse/origin story together in evolving form.
