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EMBODIMENT | GRIEF

The images and video here were generated though my digital interdisciplinary art practice and solo dancing body. Drawing from research on somatic memory, imagery, and open movement scores, each piece explores the connection between two highly physical processes: Embodiment and Grief.  

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How is grief embodied?

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Embodiment is...  Grief is...

 

Memory. Abstracting.

Feeling. Sensing. Action. 

Volume. Gradients. Tectonic.

A wild soma.

Embodiment stretches and stills our experience of time.

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Inside of the body, 

grief is never still.     

It travels through our body's roots and caverns; it compresses, and loops our impulses and initiations.

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Embodiment and grief, together, are 

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A pattern of physical experiencing; expansion meeting resistance, and resistance meeting expansion.

 

Desires go

towards  

the ways in which

I am  pushed

and pulled

by external forces.  

Emotions manifest and express themselves physically,

spiraling and extending forwards,

backwards,

up,

and down,

all at once. 

Grief navigates, 

Embodiment directs,

my movement.  

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Grief in the em/body

Mucked leaves.

Stirring slowly around,

in a hollow stomach.

coated with

wet plaster sticking

to walls while

still

peeling 

off

Wet dirt dropped down into the stomach

Spinning thickness inside of my forehead, behind my eyes

Searing, gripping heat

onto of my shoulders,

sliding down and in between

my rib bones.

How / where in the body does embodiment begin and end?

How / where in the body does grief begin and end?

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