dust

"Dust" is the first chapter of long poem based on site-specific performance work of a modern-day ruin - my mother's childhood home - and the curation of an archive of my mother's memory. The chapter uses erased texts of my mother's letters to her mother during a time of illness, a text by Freud, ​The Mystic Writing Pad, and that of The Snowgoose, a tale by Paul Gallilo. The poetry explores themes of longing and loss and attempts to recover a human body through art. To document the process of writing this chapter using movement improvisation, I filmed a sequence that integrates fragments of texts and the movement of my own physical body with the movement of the ocean, the wind through the near vacant branches and as well as the memories that "moved" through me at the time of the performance.