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My practice is an embodied expression of Being in this world that asks different questions of self, the Other and the Earth, yielding possibilities for our collective futures that we have yet to dream into being.

This work speaks to the multi-dimensional nature of what it means to Be and be in the world. Dislocation or rootedness, to be known or alone, these oversimplified binaries inadequately articulate our profound longings. We seek the gaze, a reflex action for a chance mirrored moment that says I may not know you but I see you. A furtive glance tethering us to a home found in our communal Being.

We move between inward and outward perceptions simultaneously. This is my image, yet it is not. Is it you? Is it both of us? Have you listened to what lingers in your gaze? How it paradoxically locates you in the now while untethering you into memory, possibility, and futility? We are here, yet we are not.

My inquiry emerges from within this seemingly contradictory motion. Rather than a self forged in the words and beliefs of others, my Being cannot be perceived through stolen glances informed by inadequate social categories, the fuel that often powers the gaze. I exist as dislocation made manifest; a conundrum woven of body, thought and time, earth, water and sky, memory, history and foresight. This Being is rooted in the flux of a constant learning state, identifiable as me, yet sufficiently malleable to Become.