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
Spells for Protection
Salt crystals grown into silk with mica and graphite, along with smoke from mugwort, juniper, and mistletoe.
13 x 13 x .25 inches
2020
13 x 13 x .25 inches
2020
Spells for Protection is a series of apotropaic drawings that blend the surrealist technique of fumage with the Scottish folk practice of saining. They are a collaboration between myself, the plants, and the minerals.
My work with other-than-humans is often antiphonal—one gesture invites another, a call invites a response.
In this case, I invite the plant smoke to make marks on the silk and then I respond to these marks by drawing with graphite and mica powder. The drawings are submerged in a bath where the salt molecules respond to the smoke and pigments on the surface of the fabric as they grow into the silk fibers. The spell is complete when I choose to remove the drawings from the bath.
