“In my investigations, I perform gestures that bring me to a space parallel to the other-than-human, a space I attempt to not impose upon but rather sit beside: to watch, to listen and to wait with. In such acts I hope to allow the opportunity for the other-than-human to perform its own language.”

In my art practice, I pose and respond to the question: what does a mutual and nurturing conversation with the other-than-human look like and what would the ethics of such an endeavor be? In my investigations, I perform gestures that bring me to a space parallel to the other-than-human, a space I attempt to not impose upon but rather sit beside: to watch, to listen and to wait with. In such acts I hope to allow the opportunity for the other-than-human to perform its own language—a language that isn’t an attempted translation into the familiar words and voices I may know but rather one that exists in its ambiguity and acknowledged for its difference and distance.

My prints, words, books, and installations aim to bring myself to a space of familiarity (while always seeming to acknowledge my inherent unfamiliarity) of the places my body temporarily exists upon. Through gestures of slowness, I hope to become acquainted and courteous with my surroundings—places/spaces that includes the ground, stones, trees, bugs, histories, communities, etc.

I begin my practice by attempting to create two-way conversations with the other-than-human things I experience in my daily rituals of walking, pausing, looking, and listening. I think of my practice as a study with things opposed to a study of things: a collaboration and participation between the other-than-human and myself that is interested in not only the individuality of something but its ecology, how that something can speak, exist, and influence the community of things it is a part of.

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