To each of us, the one’s who leave
Short Film
This piece is an archive of a practice I began to process my experience of displacement due to nation state, familial and intimate partner violence. In it I articulate a process of healing through a somatic relating to earth and place; finding home through an experiential and relational movement based learning. I consider my personal experience within the more macro and systemic forms of violent displacement we experience/d that fracture us internally and force us to relinquish our ecological and physical homes, peoples, languages, belongings and belonging in search of safety and wellbeing.
The site I am making this work on is the backyard of one of my former homes. Piece by piece this home and its once existing barn have crumbled over time leaving brick and fragments of home scattered around its parameter. After collecting the brick and debris I break it down into powder and use it as a drawing material, creating patterns on glass. I make this sculpture in the landscape to be seen and to be held here by it and consider it as a composting of my grief. The interaction between the movement of my body and the movement of earth; creating form, dissipating and reforming.
Film Created in collaboration with Na Forest Lim
Still photos taken by Na Forest Lim