Winslow House Project

I was fortunate to be selected for the October 2023 group residency at Winslow House Project in Vallejo, California, along with Marissa Deitz, Charlotte Law, and Anthony A. Russell. Our residency month culminated in an Open House exhibition, smoke & mirrors, with site-responsive installations, activations, and performances throughout the residency’s farmhouse and grounds. My contributions consisted of multimedia explorations and channelings of the coyote (Canis latrans), my enduring interspecies muse, through works on paper, altar installations, photo projections, and a collaborative performance.

Coyote altars

In my main studio space, I installed a coyote altar with hanging graph paper translations of coyote pixel drawings, accompanied by offerings and ephemera. I also made the golden papier-mâché coyote mask during the residency, with significant guidance from Anthony A. Russell. (Coyote makes an appearance later in the festivities.)

Coyote growth spells

A smaller altar featured two of my ballpoint pen coyote drawings, part of an ongoing body of work.

spotting projections

A reading room was converted into a viewing portal, where I projected a gallery loop of photos from my coyote spotting archives of the past few years.

reading + sound

I performed some new poetic non-fiction writing regarding my coyote-spotting practice to a backdrop of responsive soundscapes by Marissa Deitz (electric cello) and Charlotte Law (piano strings and objects).

Coyote is here

Masks and costumes were an emergent theme of our residency month. As the evening progressed and potions were dispensed, we transformed into interspecies and speculative entities. Palm eye shawl by Charlotte Law.