Unfolding in Simple Eternities
2019-2024
Unfolding in Simple Eternities is an attempt to listen, to hear the pulse of the natural world as both archive and guide. It asks how we might navigate not by language but by memory, by resonance, by trace, and by rhythm. It began with childbirth, an unexplainable crossing into the dark ocean of the body, outward to some star-filled field, calling out to meet a presence whose shape I already knew.
This experience turned me towards other scales, between the microscopic and the planetary, and between ways of knowing: the measured precision of science, the felt intuition of experience, and the quiet imperfection of observation.
The images are fragments that speak of forces both intimate and vast, moving from the intimacy of the womb to the vastness of space. The unseen currents that shape how we move through the world are tuned to signals that pass beyond our human range. Each is a thread, binding the individual to the landscape, the body to the cosmos.
The octopus knows this language. It feels through its skin, through the ripples of water around it. The female octopus lays her eggs, stays with them, and does not eat. She waits as her body weakens. When the young drift free, she dies. The pattern is older than thought, a rhythm of making, keeping, and letting go. Humans, we too, know this rhythm in the moment of birth, when the self is remade to carry another life across a threshold.
In space, waves ripple through the cosmos for millions of years, carrying a memory of what set it in motion. It is a field of memory. In it are traces of magnetism, instinctual maps of animal migration, deep ancestral signals that shape how our bodies unfold. In the human body, our archives come together: the pulse in the womb, the measured breath, echoes of tides, planetary turns, and the slow breathing of the universe itself. Unfolding in Simple Eternities follows these patterns from the slightest tremor of a cell dividing to the immeasurable space of a star’s orbit, listening for the ways all things keep time with one another.