(United States)

Water is our bodies, our bodies are water, 2021
00:03:21, HD, 16:09
MP4, 5.1

“If water is in us and we are in water, the link between human and other-than-human beings, the Earth and other worlds, is profoundly intimate and visceral. Water is not a mystical, abstracted fable. It is not quaint when Indigenous peoples tell water stories or perform water ceremonies. Water represents that humans are not the preeminent life force in the universe, nor are human political and economic systems the most important forms of governance. Water points us to other life forms and

realities, to our ancestors and futures, to our relationships across and within and between, to connections and dependencies.”

Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms, Joanne Barker

What if humanity lived in constant awareness of sacredness?

How would we treat our bodies? Each other? The land and water?

The installation Water is Our Bodies, Our Bodies Are Water features Mugwort, a powerful medicinal plant often despised yet highly effective in phytoremediation.

Through a series of actions, I create a meditative space for water worship.