To each of us, the ones who leave
This piece is an archive of a practice Cyrah Dardas began to process their experience of displacement due to familial and intimate partner violence. In it they articulate a process of healing through a somatic relating to earth and place; finding home through an experiential and relational movement based learning.
They consider this experience within the more macro and systemic forms of violent displacement we experience/d that forces us to relinquish our homes, belongings and belonging in search of safety and wellbeing.
The site they are making this work on is the backyard of one of their former homes. Piece by piece this home and its once existing barn have crumbled over time leaving brick and fragments of home scattered around its parameter. After collecting the brick and debris they break it down into powder and use it as a drawing material, creating patterns on glass. They make this sculpture in the landscape to be seen and to be held here by it and consider it as a composting of their grief. The interaction between the movement of their body and the movement of earth; creating form, dissipating and reforming.
The reception will take place on March 9th from 6pm-10pm