Mother 2023
Mother explores the idea that everyone is connected to the Earth in a spiritual and literal way. Each individual was asked to comfortably lay on the ground as if they were sleeping. This posture symbolized the one they took up in their mother's womb, as if the Earth was also their mother. The woven wool cord tied around their torsos symbolized the umbilical cord, reaching out and connecting with the Earth.
The installation process was to bring the environment photographed into a gallery space. Dirt on the ground with leaves from the location, and the cord connecting from framed print to the ground. Gallery spaces are usually sterile environments, but this gave me the opportunity to bring the outside to this inside space, disturbing the notion that gallery spaces must me pristine and undisturbed.
East Building Gallery