Dusts of Warp and Weft

performance still, linen, beeswax, found object

Land of Sand - Hoxton Cabin, London, 2025

A performance of fungal-human hybridity inhabiting collections of past and post future memories held by the sands of time. Distant imaginings reference crucial roles that fungi play in the stabilisation of desert ecosystems, while ritualised self care practices rooted in resilience and resourcefulness reminisce a scorched and barren epoch on land.  This was a time some 500 million years ago before plants had roots and could only access water and certain nutrients through mycorrhizal fungal relations. A morphing landscape of mutualistic adaptations allowed for land plants, fungi and algal ancestors of plants to extend far beyond their original capacities for survival and experience across new terrain…