Spell For Mourning: Weaving + Releasing Connections + Memories
Risograph zine and Spell candle
3 in x 4.25 in; candle, 2 in x 8 in
2021
Riso printed zine with spell and mini affirmation poster inside + a orange prayer candle with holographic sticker, anointed and blessed on the New Moon in Libra with bay leaf smoke + a mussel shell of sea salt + homemade Four Thieves Vinegar + anise seeds + cinnamon.
A Spell for Our Lady of Radical Exultations
Video with digital prints, flowers, salt, and figurine
Installation variable, video 29:11
2019
A spell for a non-binary Madonna who assists in visualizing crumbling of the white supremacist cis het patriarchy and the restrictions and violence it embodies, while surrounding the participant with joy. Download the spell sheet here.
Spell to Protect the USPS
Collaboration with Maria Molteni
Video and riso printed postcards
Video 17:37, Postcards 4 in x 6 in
2020
Flower Procession / A Spell to Ward off Gloom
Paper flowers, rosemary, bell, incense, salt
2018 - 2020
A series of several artist facilitated workshops, around the Boston area and in Minneapolis where a template for creating a paper flower without glue or tape was distributed. Participants wrote or drew on the flowers, and we combined them to a single structure. A procession was held through the streets with our sculpture, then ritually burned it to release our collective intentions. In 2020, the participatory performance was modified to be able to be performed individually at home.
Reunification Ritual
Participatory public performance with printed ephemera at Boston Common on June 30, 2018 to coincide with the Together & Free: Rally Against Family Separation. In addition to the performance, over 100 copies of a specially created zine, A Brief History of Immigration in the United States of America, were given away. Download the zine for free HERE.
Quincy Quarry
Video (25 min) on USB drive inside artificial rock
Edition of 25
2018
Ritual to acknowledge the Quincy Quarry as a sacred site where rich men took what they wanted from the earth to build monuments to their own greatness, then abandoned the destruction they caused when they no longer needed the raw materials and the quarry’s second life as a site of art making and community and recreation.
Commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council as part of the Community Supported Arts Program.