Belonging in the Woods: Familiar Flora and Phantom Frequencies

Step into a secret sonic space where leaves whisper forgotten sacred songs and, deep below the earth, roots twist and dance to their own mysterious music. This new performance of live-coded sound and light explores my family history’s intersections with witchcraft, esotericism, superstition, and working-class struggle. The work features divinatory trance music derived from the plants of the rural Michigan woods where I grew up, synchronized light art inspired by sacred geometry, and wearable sculptures and instruments made from endangered American carnivorous plants. I consider these plants as not just materials, but also collaborators and audiences.