Presented By Kiana Lamberton
I Believe in the Boundless
Mixed medium: Colored paper collage, pen, marker, multi-exposure photography, poetry 2 in. x 3 in. 2020
I Believe in the Boundless is a mixed medium piece, using my own poetry, raw sketches, torn paper, and multi-exposure photography to speak to the layers that reside within us that are both seen and unseen by the outside world. Using both digital and physical collage, I explore the severing and fragmentation of my own spirit as it attempts to show itself in its truest form, while simultaneously being weighed down by depression and physical degeneration. My words encapsulate memories and sacred times of true knowing that are sometimes deeply seen, and other times barely a whisper on the surface of how I move through this world.
Renn Simmons
She/Her
I am a multidisciplinary artist, poet, activist, and researcher concerned with ecological and human systems, the impact of humxns on the natural environment and each other, and the threads that weave these complex ideas and experiences together. Using poetry, filmmaking and performance, experiential photography, ecological research, design thinking, and earth based sculpture work as mediums of expression, I traverse a variety of realms and spaces. I am dedicated to participating in the decolonization of systems and land use, restorative justice, and supporting the return of ecological systems back to their wildness. On any given day, I might simultaneously move between the identity of a spiritual contemplative, ecologist, artist, psychological researcher, performer, systems designer, explorer, philosopher, activist, or craftsperson--no practice in my world is any less potent or crucial in the healing work that is called for in this critical time on our planet.
My body of work has been propelled by
the light and shadows
memories/present moment
cycles of pain/ trauma/death/coming home
connection/disconnection
destruction/restoration.
And conversations that
soften hard edges;
name the illusions we live within;
explore and create solutions to healing our planet;
point to our interconnectedness;
dream into the spaces between the grasses and under tree canopies;
foster personal and systemic healing.
I am a healer, a truth teller, a leader, a lover of connection, a seer and seeker, an
image creator, a weaver of nearly invisible threads that ever so gently sew themselves
through the light.
Visit me on Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/secretpatchoffreckles/?hl=en
https://soundcloud.com/secretpatchoffreckles