Samples from above include:
- Maxxed Out, mixed media installation, Open Air Media Festival, Iowa City, IA, 2023.
- Tell me about your body and I’ll tell you about mine, mixed-media installation for Dubuque Area Arts Commission, Nuestras Raices, Dubuque, IA, 2023.
- Ritualitos, mixed-media installation for Dubuque Area Arts Commission, Nuestras Raices, Dubuque, IA, 2023.
- vibrant dormancy, JULIMAR, Open Air Media Festival 2024, Iowa City, IA.
Follow the link to a video one of my favorite pieces. During a solar eclipse, Juliet Remmers and I messed around with time lapse and slow movement. Our collaborations have focused on slow, meditative movements in natural landscapes, and the eclipse offered us a break from linear, western time. We opened to the awe of a solar event.
Follow the link to our rehearsal video. JULIMAR approaches scientific inquiry through art, acknowledging the history between creative forms and how we understand the natural world. We are three Iowa City-based interdisciplinary artists exploring perspectives on the mysteries of seed dormancy and germination through movement, visual art and writing. Our practice emerges from deep listening to our environments and across generations so that we may embody older forms of knowledge and shift our relationship to land. The main questions driving our collaboration include: How do processes in nature emerge in human patterns of behavior and how can we explore our connection to soil and plantlife through movement? How do our bodies in motion hold answers to questions about the universe (and how can we hear them)? We see the universe at the level of the seed, and witness all the mysteries it holds that we have yet to learn.
I delivered a multimedia poem On Promise for Promise for the Planet, a new component of Prompt for the Planet, at the Englert Theater in Iowa City, IA in 2024. The video was made in collaboration with my kids, Adrian and Marcelo and e clayton scofield. You can follow the link on the title to see the video and hear a recording of the talk.
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