Restore the Archive

2023

kiln-formed glass

Framed in wooden shadow box: 23.5 x 17in

Hung/copper pipe: 27 x 18in

On pedestal, crumpled: 13 x 11 x 6in

This triptych was shown in the Ogden’s Louisiana Contemporary exhibition 2023

Collective human knowledge of how to accept the support of plants in healing has been repressed and recovered repeatedly through history. Stewardship of this collective memory and practice is at the heart of the fight for freedom and bodily autonomy. Restore the Archive; Rue triptych  is a series of glass prints made from the impressions of the plant Rue, a longtime ally of human reproductive rights. Glass powder was kiln-fused over plaster-silica molds, then the glass ‘prints’ were manipulated while hot in the kiln, an expression of human agency and intervention.