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Saturday, October 26 - 12:00PM to 12:50PM
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Ecologies is a multi-pronged exploration and release of grief and the development of resiliency. Expressed with salts, silver, handmade papers, and metal threads -- of process and transition. A lifetime of query has yielded that neither grief, nor healing are linear in nature and often intermingle in a liminal space.
I made the paper more than ten years ago and have held onto it like the grief I have accumulated along the way. By engaging with the materials to process my internal space, I have understood that ecological distress stems not from hopelessness, but of existential concerns for humanity and more-than-human species. In these works, salt serves as a substrate and metaphor for mourning, for healing, and the cycles of life and death.
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DM Witman
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