P002 → C for Care
C for Care, 2025, hand built glazed ceramic, blanket, welded metal structure, poplar. Installation View.
Birchwood Bath (The Virgin Spring), 2025, Oil on Panel, 36 in x 24 in.
Birchwood Bath (The Virgin Spring), 2025, Oil on Panel, poplar pile, 36 in x 24 in.
Sur o no sur, 2025, hand built glazed ceramic, industrial ceramic tiles made in USA, 8 in x 6 in x 6 in . Detail.
Sur o no sur, 2025, hand built glazed ceramic, industrial ceramic tiles made in USA, Variable dimensions.
C for Care makes reference to the homonymous video by Thom Van Dooren and in relation to his own book Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction both instances in which he reflects through storytelling on how can we open ourselves to be affected by others and their death, how can we confront the disappearance not only of animals and particularly birds, but also the disappearance of their relations and rituals with others species including our own. Borrowing from Donna Haraway’s understanding of care as a not exclusively positive or neutral action towards others, Van Dooren discuss in chapter 4 the violent-care human beings provide to Whooping Cranes in a attempt to restore their migration routes using human resources and many times the sacrifice of other species like the Sandhill Crane. In my own reflection around the conceptios of Care, of belonging, on migration and movement, and on the disorientation of not knowing where home is I wrote this: