Ruminate Room Innate

The performative aspects of ritual, birth, death, rebirth, born captive in blood memory - I am held here. Creating one's sanctuary requires retreat, isolation, rumination and desire. In this work titled "Room Innate" I explore symbiotic relationships through the lens of eco-feminism, isolation, healing, and affect.
 
I invite you to reflect on the 'affect' of feeling the planet's pain, as a woman's pain. The 'affect' of knowing that we are indeed at a point where ignorance can no longer be tolerated as a mild casualty. The 'affect' of mega-industries of all kinds, they need to acknowledge that their pursuits are not absolute rule. They have turned our home into a wasteland. Rape is a real thing, to women, men, and our planet. These acts exist in the realm of knowing what is right and wrong-our collective knowing. Like the ancient trees, we must stand united and strong in the face of our undoing. To ruminate on the fact that we are destroying ourselves, I remind you that our lifeline is always present. She is here, now. We've simply forgotten her. We've forgotten so much. Forgotten our herstories. Things like pharmaceuticals replacing Earth medicine, are truly more problematic than folks are even considering. The Earth is a balanced cycle of reciprocity-not overdoses. We are not separate from her. This is a construct. This is radical industrialization and commercialization. We are living in manufactured landscapes that confuse and mesmerize.

Colonialism has reached a cataclysmic state of undoing: our languages, our land, our Home. If we focus on Affect Theory, which is an approach that focuses on nonlinguistic forces, or "affects" that looks to history, culture, and sociality, we see that 'affect' makes us who we are. This is rarely captured by language, but rather by the unconscious feelings we have, the 'knowing' that is intuitive-innate. When we co-construct with future generations in mind, and with 'affect', when we include all our relations, when we include the creative spirit, the structure is in balance...something we have not known for a very long time. Due to circumstances, we have forgotten along the way. Cities and landscapes must include a broader vision of growth that includes nature, that includes fair access to housing, to food, to social services. That includes living, not just surviving.

Room Innate/Ruminate challenges you to remember who you are and what it means to be human.

*Exhibit installation photos for Room Innate are under the "Installation" tab. They are presently at the end of the photos. *My eldest daughter is also in these gallery photos.

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