Various fragments from my ongoing body of work exploring the continuum of burnings in Europe, including the Crusades, the Witch Hunts, the Black Plague pogroms, and the Shoah. A land of holy wars and ashes and ruins of ancient gods. Three thousand years of burial mounds. The terrain of my father’s family.
Much of this work undertaken during th Haut de Fee residency in Serecourt, Vosges (France), and upcoming fellowship at Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Bavaria (Germany).
At a certain age, my bones began stretching out far and fast. I uncannily evolved from a compact creature to a spindly, spidery sort of being. Fast-growing bones are searing – a kind of carbolic burn. Chemical, electric, and primordial. All appendages were tense and unpredictable. The skin attempted to bridge each day’s new...
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