SCULPTURE

Conversations with the wind

As a practicing abolitionist creating visionary fiction through visual art, I am interested in conjuring a future of reciprocity among human and nonhuman kin through my practice. As we continue to exist within the climate crisis, we bear witness the collapse of a societal infrastructure disconnected from the purpose of maintaining life on this planet. As a result, I understand that It is essential that we realign ourselves to the evolutionary technologies utilized by our non-human kin to support life and a viable future. This work explores the possibility of generating electrical power through kinetic sculptures moved by wind utilizing the sacred mathematical form of seed pods and shells. Through this lens, I began researching ways to learn from seed pods to engage with high winds to propel themselves into the future and ensure their species sustainability.

In Michigan we have been experiencing the consequences of clear cutting, cash crop farming as well as housing and industry collapse which has led to blighted and abandoned properties. Each of these transgressions against our communities and ecologies have created a vulnerability to winds that cause havoc on our current electrical infrastructure and emphasize the damaging effects of storms.

Those living in the systematically targeted urban or disenfranchised rural communities are neglected by oligarchic power providers in these instances, in which massive amounts of people go without access to power, heat, and electricity in their homes.

I aim to archive the origin of their design and the process for making the sculptures through a small instructional guide in service of creating an open source manual to share with the public, offering them access to this power sovereignty technology thus encouraging reverence and curiosity about the intelligent design found all around us.

Conversations with the Wind- Prototype #7 , Port Austin Michigan dark sky park

Materials; Pine, red ochre stain sourced from a Northern Michigan waterway