My house was swept away by the sea (marrying the Baltic sea)
2019
Fabric, natural dyes, etching, performance.
Developed at presented at Nida Art Colony (NAC), Lithuania
My father was adopted. His birth mother, my birth grandmother, was born in Germany. His birth father, my grandfather, is known only as the Baltic man.
I am in Lithuania, living on the edge of the Baltic Sea. The uncertainty of lineage means I am at once home and not. For Christmas my sister and I got my father a DNA test, at his request. While DNA tests have many ethical concerns, it was important to him, and soon we may know an idea of home.
The the bones of a house and a dance to an uncertain origin, on the dunes overlooking the Baltic Sea. Traditional dances of the baltic coastal country were characterised by restrained movements and percussion. The dance invokes a marriage of an uncertain past and future as the sea shrugs from the woman standing in front of her.
This work partly inspired by the Lithuanian film A Women and Her Four Men / Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai.
Update on test: 50% Germanic, 50% “broadly Scandanavian”
I am in Lithuania, living on the edge of the Baltic Sea. The uncertainty of lineage means I am at once home and not. For Christmas my sister and I got my father a DNA test, at his request. While DNA tests have many ethical concerns, it was important to him, and soon we may know an idea of home.
The the bones of a house and a dance to an uncertain origin, on the dunes overlooking the Baltic Sea. Traditional dances of the baltic coastal country were characterised by restrained movements and percussion. The dance invokes a marriage of an uncertain past and future as the sea shrugs from the woman standing in front of her.
This work partly inspired by the Lithuanian film A Women and Her Four Men / Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai.
Update on test: 50% Germanic, 50% “broadly Scandanavian”
Abandoned listening tower on the Lithuanian/Russian border. The Curonian Spit has been contested space, with Nazi Germany annexing the area in 1939.
Work in progress, making the dress.
