chimaera (becoming invasive)

A ritual enacting a bodily state of becoming invasive species — a commingling of handmade knotweed and abaca paper skins, altar-making, light moving through leaf and smoke, a poem falling out of the book, and grief, ever-present grief.

The body becomes a site of resilience, adaptation, and entanglement with land. Plant skins, worn during performance, are later assembled into a spectral sculptural form: an afterimage of the body and its gestures, a relic of the ritual.​

​2025
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