Rotor
Video bringing together several narratives in which particles migrate from one location to the other. Dust is accumulated through cycles of growth, decay, conflict, and repose, highlighting the non-hierarchical qualities of dust where humans and non-humans merge.
The video lists the constituents of dust as “fragments of migrating corpses, bits of my lover, ghost in the machine.” Collisions form clouds of dust around planets, resin dust creates images on metal plates, dust travels from the Bodele Depression to the Amazon, providing nutrition for entire forests. By bringing forward these micro and macro journeys at sites of varying sizes (a box, a home, a desert, a galaxy), the work reveals a space in which humans and non-humans merge into one another, dissolving boundaries, occupying multiple temporalities at once, building a continuous stream.