Wash and Fold: revelatory housekeeping during an age of pandemic and racial injustice
I’m excited to share a new video I’m presenting through the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on the national arts platform Fieldtrip. Wash and Fold highlights ideas I’m working with in new video and performance works I’m developing with Aisha and my parents.
The process of sharing my process was challenging and illuminating. I draw from everything around me, often the invisible materials of life like relationships, felt senses of spaces, and the longings of my heart. I get personal in this video sharing what’s been coming up for me in this time of home retreating during the pandemic: navigating parenting a teenager, being far from my mother and my father and witnessing systemic violence being called out.
Filming with Kyra Kordoski and Aisha at home during a pandemic was tender and caring, wearing masks, we washed each others hands and feet and folded laundry. When I watch the footage, I begin to see the language between our bodies, cloth and soap.
it takes friction
to create a lather
holding this body
in a slippery space
between us
vanishing
as we listen
washing
what can’t be seen
still from Wash and Fold, work in progress with Aisha Haq