Terral Aperture
Terral Aperture is a collaborative video work I created with Ocean, a disabled poet and novelist living in the Pacific Northwest. Together, we explore the relationality between time and flesh through processes of erosion, burial, and subterranean myth.
The work features macro footage of Red Wiggler earthworms layered with a multivoice poetic narration. Through this visual and sonic language, I examine invisibility, decay, and subterranean time while attending to the sensorial worlds of nonhuman life forms. The video considers how time operates beneath the surface—slow, embodied, and largely unseen.
This project also questions the interdependency humans have with Red Wiggler earthworms, a domesticated invasive species widely used as a natural resource within systems of colonization. By approaching postcolonial theory through the lifeworld of the earthworm, Terral Aperture reframes ecological labor, care, and extraction from a subterranean perspective.
Terral Aperture was exhibited at The Vestibule, Seattle, WA, in 2024 as part of a collaborative exhibition between Ocean and I.
The work features macro footage of Red Wiggler earthworms layered with a multivoice poetic narration. Through this visual and sonic language, I examine invisibility, decay, and subterranean time while attending to the sensorial worlds of nonhuman life forms. The video considers how time operates beneath the surface—slow, embodied, and largely unseen.
This project also questions the interdependency humans have with Red Wiggler earthworms, a domesticated invasive species widely used as a natural resource within systems of colonization. By approaching postcolonial theory through the lifeworld of the earthworm, Terral Aperture reframes ecological labor, care, and extraction from a subterranean perspective.
Terral Aperture was exhibited at The Vestibule, Seattle, WA, in 2024 as part of a collaborative exhibition between Ocean and I.