The Imbrication
Video Installation on soil
While exploring the transformative qualities found in soil: it’s intricate systems, working together, not easily identified by its parts, but known by its whole, I began to see it for its transformative properties: as a caretaker of deep time: embodying death, birth and rebirth.
This work begins as a healing process, a transformative and embodied experience. The imagery projected onto the soil explores the notion of a conflicted and detached body, the body of an adoptee who is forced to constantly surpass the scope of their own detached history and reaffirm their body. The figure performs the act of authenticating the self. They mourn the loss of the imagined Latina. The body and dirt are metaphors for transformation, under conditions of immobility and deep disconnected heritage.
