second skin
16mm film scans on acetate, archival inkjet print
2024
a fragmented record of the land, a buried archive.
the colonial past haunting the neocolonial present, all histories entangled in the soil.
16mm scans—
snippets from 100ft of 16mm film that was laid out across the ground in the middle of the
night, covered in dirt, and exposed via flashlight, moonlight, and ambient street light.
partially buried in the same soil for several months, the earth slowly eroding the emulsion
until only fragments of the frame remain. histories unearthed and unmade;
the land (re)harvesting the light.
inkjet print—
a photograph of the mark left in the land in creation of this work.
generative hole, fertile soil; both wound and womb.