meda
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Dates2018 - 2019
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Author
- Topics Portrait, Landscape, Fine Art
- Location New Mexico, United States
In MEDA I explore our relation to nature from the principle of myth and memory embedded in the body as the land and the land as the body.
“I am that part of the rainforest that recently emerged into thinking” -Beyond Anthropocentrism, J.Seed
In MEDA I explore our relation to nature from the principle of myth and memory embedded in the body as the land and the land as the body.
There is a word in Quichua that has personal significance, and epitomizes the project; “Iyurina” which means to remember by contemplating the land.
Deep in the mind of every living human there are memories that can be traced back to millions of years and they can be activated under specific sounds, patterns, and images. I am interested in the performative aspect of memory, the use of the body, and patterns of deconstruction as a way to reclaim, and reseed a deeper relation to the land.
Every life form in this planet is within our body, ancient cosmologies shaped by geography, dust and blood, perhaps not recognizable at first due to war, and displacement, but in every bloodline, runs indigenous wisdom that is unique and most often hidden in mythos.
Myth is a deeply embodied experience; its intrinsic expression is in the process and the instant. The body as a conduit contains knowledge; it is in the feral language of symbolism that we can begin to empower and re-wild ourselves. In this sense, photography has the ability to confront illusion: as both, a layering subjective process and as a raw direct experience.
I am interested in addressing a relation to nature that is unmitigated by the rational mind, but in stories that pour out of the body, spontaneous, collaborative and non-binary. Matriarchal sustenance is birthed from transformation, pain, decay and force. The body is not only the first land that we live in; it is also a land that bleeds.
We live in tumultuous times, contemplating the land is contemplating our origin and also where we are heading. MEDA is an anthology of the essentiality of intersectional storytelling, blood memory, reconnection and our increasing need for a new paradigm.
