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.”

the Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Body Weaving   I    Shroud   I   Epidermis
Above: Peat Casting #7, #11, #6
Below: All peat castings (13 total)
Documentation of sacrifice
Performance   I   Clara Bog, Ireland