Part I - Altar of Sowers

Part II - Echo’s Garden

Credits: Emile Deschamps (Photographer), Kimmie Barbosa, Devin Ariel, Tavy Tornado (models left to right).

Echo's Garden

Credits: Devin Ariel (Photographer), Kimmie Barbosa (model)

Echo's Garden

Credits: Emile Deschamps (Photographer), Kimmie Barbosa, Devin Ariel, Tavy Tornado (models left to right).

Echo's Garden

Credits: Devin Ariel (photographer). Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphosis, where Echo dies with her words echoing across a pond, Echo’s Garden consists of 18 glass spheres with opaque rings and gold paint reflecting the alchemy of myth overtime. These works reference Gayatri Spivak’s essay in which she critiques Echo’s absence from cultural history as an overall practice of erasing othered subjectivities in Western narratives. I found this relevant to present-day debates about recognizing indigenous territories (including the site where these works were created).