War Dance


April 2025
389 hours
Ebony, Mahogany, Hemp, Hair From Head of Joyce, Spalted Tamarind, Padauk, Maple




War Dance next to (the) Goods



Joyce next to work for scale


Thesis show at The Wurks, Providence, RI
Works shown (left to right): War Dance, (the) Goods, Prayer II, Witness

Relevant Texts to “War Dance”

Chiang, T. (2019). Exhalation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
The Great Silence
Omphalos
Kimmerer, R. W. (2015). Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
Roy, A. (1997). The God of Small Things. Vintage Canada
Le guin, Ursula. (1985). Always Coming Home. Harper Perennial ed., Harper & Row, 2023.
Kesner, L. (1995). Likeness of No One: (Re)presenting the First Emperor’s Army. College Art Association.



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