MOTHER MOTHER

sound/video/detritus installation

Video by Stephen Miller

Sound by Lisa DeGrace

Mother Mother started in an epic project to uproot the invasive bittersweet on our property that was choking the trees to death. There was a lot of literal and figurative unwinding in this very physical work. And then suddenly there were cottonwoods, and fern, and spruce and so many more emerging and newly alive.

We then turned to an old foundation on the property, intending to “just clean it up a little bit,” and instead becoming obsessed with the objects found deep in the dirt, including 19 intact glass dessert cups and a silver tray). A strange human form of invasives.

Sound track for the installation here.