In the studio
T O T E M S
This body of work is about traveling back in time… perhaps as far back as to the origin of mankind —where there were no written traces or detailed records of the human experience— and all that’s left standing from that time has become sacred. It is utterly mysterious. What was it used for? Ultimately, we have to be a bit of a detective to answer that question, and use our collective imagination to understand the meaning of what remains and find a common agreement about these ancestral rituals. We have to all decipher what’s been left behind, and agree that what remains was clearly sculpted by a human hand, was not the result of nature’s erosion for example.
In that way, I think we can find that what remains is imbued with human life. What were these things meant for? No one will ever know for sure, and so in that sense, there’s no limits to our projections from our modern perspective, from our futuristic gaze. Every human being can connect to the Ancient, and the Ancient has something for every one of us.
Video credit: Amanda Sellers
