endless body (2023-2024)

endless body explores the interconnection and intelligence of the life systems of which we are part. Informed by submerged, somatic, glacial, riverine, and underground places, these works on paper span microscopic and expansive scales, from bone marrow to fungi and river networks. They are partially produced with materials from the watersheds that flow from the great divide in the Rocky Mountains, as they began with an interest in the rhizomatic cartography of spreading river systems that begins there. Silt, breastmilk, bitumen, soil, glacial till, iron oxide and coal; these materials are carried, produced and influenced by water. This work is informed by scholar Astrida Neimanis’s posthuman feminist theory exploring an expanded understanding of bodies of water, human and more-than-human, as porous and enmeshed. The drawings are prototyped to hang off the wall and can be experienced from both sides. More information on material origins, watersheds and territories can be found here.

This project has been generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance and the British Columbia Arts Council.