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A Sown Seed (2023)
2:58 minutes, stop-motion collage.
Reflects upon the assumed life of a rural woman. The struggle of eliminating the self in order to take care of others, a theme enforced through religious guilt and traditional familial traditions. How does one feel when their life has already been planned out for them, regardless of their own thoughts and dreams?
Researched through secondhand accounts in sociological studies, seeing how far this type of living has continued throughout the context of modern day. Firsthand accounts were sourced through the diaries of my ancestors and my Grandmother, who was the ideal of what a farm woman really is: a carer of the family but also alongside my Grandfather in the hot fields when help was needed. Never one to complain, recognizing the health of her family rests ultimately on her back.
Coins (2022)
2:30 minutes, stop-motion collage.
How often does one remember their first action that makes them flush with guilt? The first action that still turns your head hot and your stomach into bubbles late at night before sleep. Following the irrational rationale of a child scrambled with the fear of punishment, losing the assumed purity and innocence that comes along with young age.
This stop-motion collage is a surreal representation that is the fever dream associated with the memory of my own first brush with sin. Stealing collectible quarters for the purchase of a $6 soccer ball to go to my childhood pup Roxy; once the error of ways was understood the only foreseeable escape from retribution was to put them where no one would find them—buried in the dirt.
From farm to table
What would it sound like to be a pig? Not a special pig like in Charlotte’s Web——but one used to sustain the human race? One that gets no recognition and is reduced to a number in a system often blissfully ignored by those who absentmindedly participate.
Follow the noise of an inevitable slaughter to the process which heeds a transition of flesh into meat.