Elements Within
2026

Picking up sticks and fallen branches during a residency at Casa del Lago, I was brought back to memories of staying at my grandmother’s as a child, and how the branches outside would keep me company as a I fell asleep, throwing shadows across the ceiling, but also by tapping the window, the walls, sending small rhythms and messages into my dreams. The exhibition is a gesture of remembering, finding in those early rhythms a guide for how to take steps – a type of rhythmical background to the body’s gestural vocabularies, relational leanings, movement strategies. In addition to these memories of the branches, I started to think about other elemental figures that reside within, which led me to think of my great-grandmother, and how she would tend her garden as a way of surviving the difficulties after my great-grandfather died due to accident at the factory where he worked in the 1920s. Carrying buckets of water across the neighborhood to maintain her vegetables, my great-grandmother’s watering emerges as a foundational story, a matter that is carried not only in buckets, but also in the cells that have been given to me, passed down in the waters of a greater family story, and which I follow, in circular, spiraling drawings, and the sounds of water. 

Developed and presented at Casa del Lago, as part of a residency May 2026.