Adaptations
A series of fortunate and unfortunate events.
Control the uncontrollable.
Duck and cover and recover.
Life and lemonade.
Lists and more lists I need a list to track my lists. I’ve not before mobilized my studio practice and had to strategize and be predictive materially - necessary for my Berlin residency this February, an opportunity I have dreamt of for most of my life. My stay will culminate with a solo exhibition at the end of March, ironically on my birthday- a date/event/anniversary that launched this whole damn thing. Berlin holds a special meaning for me - it is significant to my identity and family lineage, the birthplace of my forefathers and my mother - none who survive there now. I want, through my work and my research, to discover things that are both lost and unknown.
The birthplace of my forefathers and mother, it is hard not to wonder if it would have been my place of origin had history taken a different path.
Mono no aware (物の哀れ),[a] lit. 'the pathos of things', and also translated as 'an empathy toward things', or 'a sensitivity to ephemera', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.[2]
Passing, 2024
Fecund Dirge, 2023