As close to the ground as possible
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2025
As close to the ground as possible
touch, smell, hold, listen
Pick up the sound vessels and carry them around for a while, sit down and watch the films, touch the sculptures, step inside if you want.
This gallery is not the home of these altars, they belong to thin places along the Mississippi River and among the foliage in Iowa. These are places of personal significance, where multiple worlds meet and time collapses.
Maybe if we can experience time-breaking together, something radical can happen to us. We could witness a time deteriorating, opening, ripping, softening, easing, stretching, multiplying, stopping or maybe pausing. We could live in and outside of time, transgress it to connect with each other, our ancestors, all things–human and non human. Sinking into the deep interconnectivity of time and space, we could imagine multiple times and spaces, while also experiencing the local ecology and time of a particular site.