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From: On, Of, 2018

Materials: Sheet Copper, Pitcher, Cup, Shovel

Positioning myself as a reformed artifact of my ancestors, returning to a place they exploited, and recontextualizing my relationship with that environment.

I wrap the processed copper around myself, merging as the extractor and extracted return to the source.

I collect and return my sweat to the earth, giving salt and water back to the land where both have been violently stolen.

I dig a hole, reappropriating an action of taking/extracting as one of giving/offering. Offering myself to the earth to allow it to act upon me, and proposing my potential for rebirth.

Performance as a part of La Wayaka Current Desert Residency program in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

 
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