Bog Pilgrim

2021-2022

Bog Pilgrim is a performance-based project which explores peat bogs as a potential site for spiritual time travel, preservation, and a feminine immortality, borne of my own feelings of climate despair.  There is a vain human desire within me that craves remembrance, a record, proof of existence; I suspect that I am driven by the same motivation that drove Paleolithic humans to press their pigmented hands against cave walls: “We were here.”

Performance documentation

Above: Documentation of sacrifice object, made of concrete, laser-etched leather, human hair yarn. 
Above: Peat castings, cyanotypes on paper casts of peat cuttings w/ collected bog materials & handspun human hair yarn
Installation views:

Above this line: Bog Pilgrim, the Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022)

Below: VMFA Futures, the Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (2023)