Witnessing through Video
Transference, 2021, Earthenware and Nichrome Wire, 20.25” x 11.5” x 9.5”
For best listening, please enjoy with headphones (not including airpods)
Inherent Passage, 2021, Earthenware and Acrylic Sheet, 11” x 7.5” x 4.5”
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Humpback whale vocalization provided courtesy of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Gabriele, Christine. “Glacier Bay humpback whale song November 2020. National Park Service, 13 Nov. 2020, https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=0EA834EA-87BA-465D-913C-F9782774E486, MP3 file. Accessed 23 July 2021."
Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, this land understands humans’ historical expansiveness of self, presently constrained by the hegemonic, heteronormative binary. The water is waiting for our return to relational fluidity.
In witnessing classroom injustices around gender discussions, I present a human through four pillars of our skeletal anatomy: the skull, spine, ribcage, and pelvis. These structures are keys to our design and upholds spiritual matter to form a being of light. When the sun collaborates with water a portal refracts kaleidoscopic dimensions of existence.
Rainbows are a natural phenomenon, an opening for queer dialogue, and an ephemeral artifact from the future revealing itself in the right conditions. These elements engage my past, present, and persistence to forge a fluid future through the presence of hand-built ceramics.
Thank you to Calvin Lac, Lauren Trangmar, and Pearl Zhou-Ikeda for your assistance beyond the shore.