[ THE BLUE AT THE BASE OF THE FLAME ]

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).

Floriography I and II in Performance

May 15, 2011
Wikswo Floriography I

A few photographs from the recent performance of my Floriography I (Coimbra 1541) and Floriography II (Bavaria 1543), a diptych of text-integrated video installation. They were presented  at Catalysis Projects’ MicroTextual performances at MiMoDa Studio in Los Angeles, curated by Aron Kallay. In the background is the projection of my video installation, and in the foreground we have [...]


BumbleMoth

BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)