HomeBase Lab Artist Residency Berlin, 2013
Created in dialogue with artist Hanae Utamura
I Will Squat in the Dirt and Grow Flowers airs private treasures throuThe piece digs through questions of in/visibility, transplantation, uprooting, containment, concealment, and recycling inhabitance. I am offering a channel for the many ghosts and incarnations that inhabit the physical material (architecture, composted dirt, body.) Through the movement of these elements I create ‘action paintings,’ revealing layers of imprints through windows and cracks, activating the HomeBase greenhouse as a sphere for growth abandoned in winter and turned inside out.
The piece digs through questions of in/visibility, transplantation, uprooting, containment, concealment, and recycling inhabitance. I am offering a climate to peer into, a channel for the many ghosts and incarnations that inhabit the physical material of the architecture, composted soil, and site. Through the movement of my body among these elements I create ‘action paintings,’ revealing layers of imprints made by soil.
