Loops of Origin:
S(kin)dred
Bessel Van der Kolk wrote, The Body Keeps the Score, and I want to ask,
who is winning?
Loops of Origin: S(kin)dred is a multi-media installation that weaves together spoken word, sculpture, and light to create an immersive experience encapsulating memory, trauma, and addiction. The work is a test of the tribulating nature of navigating both loss & grief, while reflecting on experiences that haunt and loom both brain and body. I am curiously confronting the nature of intergenerational trauma, femineity, and the fragile tensions between addictions and bodily afflictions. The work is a comment on, and testament to the nature of trauma as a living entity, and translating the experience into visceral entanglement...
Loops of Origin: Sacral Stories
Loops Of Origin, is a series of multimedia crochet and poetry installations which delve into the worlds of love, of loss, and unraveling of words to memorialize, and discover my own identity in the vast web of life. Family, commemoration, and reflection unify in this 3 minute performance to discover, contemplate, and honour the lineage of the loved ones who came before me, and the installation is a work that will carry on through deep meaning and insights of the afterlife.
This project focuses on embodied intergenerational trauma carried in the body, held within each vertebra of the spinal cord-the backbone of our being. It is the through-line which connects and carries us through life. What are the stories we carry, translate, express, and transcribe? How do you unfold a memory, and find yourself inside of it, alive and breathing?
Memory is alive, in the body it is a visceral thing, an absence of innocence, a knot, a fistful of times you cannot erase, histories you cannot un-write. We can only live with them. Share them. Learn and heal from them. This work is an ode to the trauma we carry, hold, and weave into the fabric of existence...