Land art / photograph / performance
Ephemeral, land, site, temporary, climate, future, now
June 2022

How can I be present in a moment while acknowledging its temporariness? How can this apply to land and legacy?

At Nankl Mniku’l, the Five Islands, looking out over Tia’mue’katik, Moose Island — largest of the five points of land that stand amidst the changing waters — the mudflats of low tide are a constant reminder of the temporary nature of life, and the constant changes that define our lived existence. Soon Gone is a meditation on change, a looking to the future while standing in the moment. Evoking environmental calls to action, less of a nod to future nostalgia and more a reminder to be present while contemplating that which lies ahead and what will be absent. The hand-written text, carved from the mud with a stick and the movement of a body, are in English, the colonizer’s (my) language, formed into the mud only to be smoothed out, washed away, gone, a few hours later.