LICHEN BABY…IT’S ME, MOSS.
Lichen Baby (aka Spiral Moss) Video Still 9
“Lichen Baby…It’s Me Moss” entangles dual research threads looking at lichen’s symbiosis and moss’s natural structure to find poetics of being. Engaging multiple modes such as paper works, sound scores, scripted and movement based performance, and histories of scenic painting to create portals for consideration of these unlikely philosophers. These works combine to create a nuanced multi-layer world, giving the receiver multiple ways to enter and process the work's journey. As an organizer with a deep community practice this approach allows the artist to engage more abstractly, addressing the spiritual and ephemeral thicket of being. Avoiding the illustrative, allowing the seepage of subjects and methodologies between forms which bleed onto each other, following the score of the nature research as guide.
Approaching performance as exhibit, and exhibition as performance here the bodily experience, layers nuance of the witness-able and the experiential, the fleeting and the liveness, all held in the materials.Constantly faced with what it means to hold and translate what cannot be replicated, pushing in practice to meet the cumulative research and consideration that takes place in a studio. A painting worn while reading poems, laid under while drawing with tools intended for burning, each act bleeds onto the next. Recent works sit with the personal and with research, materials, and ever-compounding time, extracting meaning that oozes beneath a new process for an old problem; I am too many, I am only me.
