Artwork
Grafts
Listening Technology
Spells for Protection
Gathering
Mother Bayou
For Seeing Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Can you hear me now?
Tarot Deck [in progress]
Echoes of the Witch
Water Moves
For Release
Quantum Conversations
The Parting Gift
Smells for Protection
What the Stone Saw
Ritual Bridge
In Bloom
Stilled Chimera
Sourcing the Sacred
As Above, So Below
Rock Hard
You excite me the way your gaze touches my body
I fell for you
Desiring Sterilizing Desiring
Sourcing the Sacred
Water from Brays Bayou, the artist’s sweat, glass bottles, digital pigment prints, photographic vinyl map charting the path of Brays Bayou, silver leaf, shelves.
44 x 271 x 4 inches
2024
44 x 271 x 4 inches
2024
Sourcing the Sacred imagines bayou water as holy water and follows my search for the lost source of Brays Bayou.
In many ways this bayou is my home. I was born next to Brays, grew up playing on the banks, and for most of my life, slept within 50 meters of its slow-moving flow and frequent floods. Though it has been widened, rerouted, paved, and polluted, Brays Bayou is a natural river that was once a thriving ecosystem and a place of generative fertility. And like all rivers, it has a source.
In August of 2024, I walked about 18 miles from my childhood home to reach the place where Brays is said to have once welled up out of the earth. Today it is a retention pond. Throughout human history, source waters have been sacred places. This project wonders how our relationship with the bayou would shift if we experienced the water through the lens of the sacred.
In many ways this bayou is my home. I was born next to Brays, grew up playing on the banks, and for most of my life, slept within 50 meters of its slow-moving flow and frequent floods. Though it has been widened, rerouted, paved, and polluted, Brays Bayou is a natural river that was once a thriving ecosystem and a place of generative fertility. And like all rivers, it has a source.
In August of 2024, I walked about 18 miles from my childhood home to reach the place where Brays is said to have once welled up out of the earth. Today it is a retention pond. Throughout human history, source waters have been sacred places. This project wonders how our relationship with the bayou would shift if we experienced the water through the lens of the sacred.
Sourcing the Sacred was created for Troubling the Boundaries, a project curated by FotoFest for their exhibition Artist-run, Artist-organized.