Your grief is welcome here

Your grief is welcome here, 2025, top of canvas is a swarm of star bodies in red and bottom of canvas is a movement drawing made by swinging my arms upwards and outwards over and over. Bottom painted on gesso mixed with clay.

Detail of top canvas and star bodies

Your grief is welcome here, 2025, still from performance documentation. I buried and unburied a small form based on a grain mummy, made from paper pulp, soil, and crushed roses. Before burying the form, I rubbed it with crushed roses and oil, inspiered by Coptic hanout , or scented oil used in funerary rites.

Roses at the base of the painting, which were later crushed during the performance.

Your grief is welcome here, 2025, still from performance documentation. I buried and unburied a small form based on a grain mummy, made from paper pulp, soil, and crushed roses. Before burying the form, I rubbed it with crushed roses and oil, inspiered by Coptic hanout , or scented oil used in funerary rites.

Form based on the Egyptian grain mummy, which was buried and unburied then handed to different audience members, as part of the performance.