I'm experimenting with words as sculpture, text-work as immaterial or as-less-immaterial-as-possible forms of sculpture.

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This work is inspired by my PhD research on queering the land, land art, Ana Mendieta, earth spirituality and neo-materialism.

I have started  this process thinking  how I could create work that was as less polluting as possible, but equally that could queer the land, by considering words and the spoken language as matter entangling with people/readers/listeners’ thoughts, creating sculptures in their minds/thoughts/dreams.

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The result is a (long) sequence of short poems evoking the brevity of social media messages, the fast-paced nature of our lives, or the short attention spans and fleeting memories that define our times. They represent a spell making of some sort, micro-poems or haiku-style poems that can be considered singularly or as a long deconstructed poem, one word in a poem as a catalyst for another subsequent poem.

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This work is becoming a book, but also each text/poem/mind-scultpure are intended as visual work to be shown in different forms/formats/embodiments. I'm also experimenting with painting, re-writing the same poem over and over again until it becomes incomprehensible and abstract, a performative gesture similar to spell casting.