Film still, Of Shape Offshore, 2023, one channel video with sound, 13 mins 55 secs


With sculptures that fossilize the present, the reconstructed archipelago of decaying remnants symbolizes the sedimented debris layers of our vast compressed contemporary lives and deaths. The video unravels a speculative cosmology meditating on the earth's history, geotrauma, and queer pluralism of our ancestry. Spiraling downward the morphing evolutionary time, the dreamlike voyage leads to the pre-human, pre-mammalian worlds while alluding to deep historical futures.


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