Artwork
Grafts
Listening Technology
Spells for Protection
Gathering
The Parting Gift
For Seeing Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Tarot Deck [in progress]
Echoes of the Witch
For Release
Quantum Conversations
What the Stone Saw
Smells for Protection
In Bloom
Stilled Chimera
Can you hear me now?
As Above, So Below
Rock Hard
You excite me the way your gaze touches my body
I fell for you
As Above, So Below
Archival digital pigment prints, velvet, frame.
20 x 24 11/16 x 2 1/8 inches
2023
Embodying the esoteric dictum, “as above, so below,” this series of diptychs explores the visual and ontological reflections between stars and soil. Each photographic diptych juxtaposes an image of the microbiology and minerals within a soil sample with an image of the night sky directly above the sample location.
“A Truth without doubt, wholly sound,
that the highest is from the lowest
and the lowest is from the highest.
The working of wonders is from the one,
just as all things came from the one,
by a single governance.
Its father is the Sun and its mother is the Moon.
The wind carries it in her belly.
The earth nourishes it. . .”
from Kit¯ab Sirr al-Khal¯ıqah by pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana, c. 750-850 CE.
trans. by Brian Cotnoir, The Emerald Tablet, 2019.
“A Truth without doubt, wholly sound,
that the highest is from the lowest
and the lowest is from the highest.
The working of wonders is from the one,
just as all things came from the one,
by a single governance.
Its father is the Sun and its mother is the Moon.
The wind carries it in her belly.
The earth nourishes it. . .”
from Kit¯ab Sirr al-Khal¯ıqah by pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana, c. 750-850 CE.
trans. by Brian Cotnoir, The Emerald Tablet, 2019.