Flower song, 2025
mesquite charcoal watercolor, cotton paper
installed in the Chandler studio at Ragdale Residency
installed in the Chandler studio at Ragdale Residency
Live here on Earth, blossom! As you move and shake, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs are forever: I raise them: I, a singer. I scatter them, I spill them, the flowers become gold: they are carried inside the golden place. Ohuaya, ohuyaya. - Cantares Mexicanos #20 (16v-17r) Flower Songs of Hungry Coyote
Native plants in Chicago are drawn and cut out to be placed under the skylight of the Chandler Studio at Ragdale Residency. Each plant is given a sun placement to sing a tune of growth and become rootless for an instant at 2:10pm central time. The sun lightly coming and reaching the roots that are no longer sunken in soil but seen. Small animals sit underneath the enlarged plants as a way to speak in the same tongue as my ancestors.
Native plants in Chicago are drawn and cut out to be placed under the skylight of the Chandler Studio at Ragdale Residency. Each plant is given a sun placement to sing a tune of growth and become rootless for an instant at 2:10pm central time. The sun lightly coming and reaching the roots that are no longer sunken in soil but seen. Small animals sit underneath the enlarged plants as a way to speak in the same tongue as my ancestors.
