BODY FOSSILS

I’ve been exploring the effects of pigments on an archive of photographs I printed and have held onto over the years. I don’t know why they stayed in old photo boxes, stored, but maybe it was for this moment, a place to think about memory, time, unrealized projects, unknowns, loss, and reworking them with the noticings I carry with me, moss, wave, shadow, polyphores and other fungi…

This series is part of the project, Body Fossils, a regular shared-studio-practice-at-a-distance, over at STUDIES FOR. As a small group of international artists that meet up regularly (because it feels really good to work alongside one another), this year we chose the theme of Body Fossils to focus on deep time, interbeing, and impermanence. We’re into the idea of the physical remains (hard parts) of organisms (bones, teeth, shells, wood) as distinguished from trace fossils, like footprints.

Body Fossils is the third year of a daily practice within a small community of people dedicated to following the same invitations into reflection, connection, placemaking, and auspicious coincidence.