36 cyanotypes made with waters of the desert, from the Rio Grande to the peaks' snow.
2021
Total installation dimension 9' x 12'
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If life started with blue (an origin story)
It began with a microscopic droplet of water
secluded from the rest of the ocean.
Cyanide and water creates us, as shapes on the paper surface.
Porosity.
As the ocean echoing on the land, I am made of membrane that can be crossed. I am molecules that speak the same language across species.
Chemical translations are chimeric, they don't belong,
Life is richer int he liminal:
on the shore where skylandsea come together life explodes
in all shapes and forms and relations
it can imagine.
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Membranes are the liminal origin of life separating
inside and outside,
primordial identities:
I am what the ocean is not, yet I am the ocean.
(My body still knows when I am in salt water. Still knows
when my tears and sweat could find themselves in the without
The ocean and I are same, we have different currents.)
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Our bones are made of calcium from water.
Our blood contains the iron of rocks and magnets.
Go lay down on the ground, they deserve to feel home.
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