Gales Gallery, York University, October 2023
This exhibition goes hand-on-hand with my doctoral project,
“We Change Everything We Touch and Everything We
Touch Changes,” which assembles interconnected texts, quotations, graphic content,
and sculptural works to ask: what forms (in their many forms) do beds make it
possible to imagine? What grows from their fertile soil? What weird wanderings
does a drowsy mind follow? What does a tired and/or sick body deem important or
irrelevant? What conventions undo themselves when lying
prone, released from the vertical “I”—the upright standing I, the individual I,
the restless I, the I who scans the horizon in search of somewhere else; when
we are in a hammock, a burrow, a mat in the corner, some warm patch of grass,
or soft sand, where we cannot be blown down by the storms of history because we
are already hugging the earth, settled by gravity’s pull, dreaming the world
into existence. What then? What thoughts? What emotions? What sensations
and perceptions? What possibilities? What strange affinities nestle into and
around us?
*pdf: “I’m on Fire”
*pdf: “I’m on Fire”