Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock
Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock
Exhibition: July 24th – August 12th, 2025 | artLAB Gallery. Photography by Danielle Petti and Dickson Bou
This exhibition is the culmination of my research-creation practice over two years of the MFA program at Western University. It encompasses the (re)connecting with Land through found colour from rock, the mark-making by transformation, the repurposing of found materials to echo geological formations, and the re-enactment of deep time using paper pulp. Creating modular, repeated, yet distinct, components that build into a larger whole, the work expresses the universe’s sculptural tendencies.
To feel as a rock is to have awareness without self. To feel as a rock is to embrace and contribute to geological and other nonhuman processes. To feel as a rock is to escape human notions of time.
This work has been made possible by the support from family, friends, and colleagues; my supervisor Sheri Osden Nault, my partner, my kids, my cohort, the ecologies I inhabit, and the enduring caretaking of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron. I am grateful to share this place with a diverse world of flora, fauna, fungi, microbes, soil, and rocks, each with kin’s own life and entangled relationships. Kin's presence continue to guide my art practice.