SEAWEED LUNGS   

shown at southern exposure, sf, august 2022. 

physical experiments in layering seaweed with 120 film alongside Katie Murken. all seaweed was sourced and photos taken from the northern california coast, specifically in marshes and water outlets around the bay area.

“there are heroes in the seaweed,there are children in the morning. they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever” - leonard cohen 

“I think it is this that draws me to the pond on a night in April, bearing witness to puhpowee. Tadpoles and spores, egg and sperm, mind and yours, mosses and peepers - we are all connected by our common understanding of the calls filling the night at the start of sprng. it is this wordless voice of longing that resonates within us, the longing to continue, to participate in the sacred life of the world.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses