The Red Desert

By 
Morphing 
I am a fish 
Listening 
My guts spill 
A thousand tongues 
Into the earth 
  Red is the Earth. 

(Dow, 2024)
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The Red Desert. Video Still. Dow. 2025.
The Red Desert. Video Art. Dow. 2025. I see this work as a moving painting, there is a rhythm that imitates the breath of the body. In and out, in and out, ebb and flow. I incorporate stop motion painting and ink with video footage to create a magical realist world. In this world, the question is where the physical body ends. Does it have a boundary or are my guts and spit spilling out onto the earth. This work takes the viewer on a journey in I listen to the ground, to the trees and stones and I see red. Red like my blood. Red like the heating of the planet. As I wonder through this changing landscape I realise that my human-ness puts me in relation and conversation with all that is around me.

I am everything around me, and my blood spills…
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The Red Desert. Video still. Dow. 2025.
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Body Fluids. Photography. Dow. 2025. I am interested in the barrier between my body and the outside world and how particles and fluids drift between the two spaces. Spit being one of the things that exists the body on to the earth.

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