EWE Pencil and drafting tape on paper, 5 x 7 inches

This piece represents the reclamation of your own life, of your own place in the world, gathering pieces that have washed away with the tide. I am not the lamb, sweet and meek, but the ewe, steadfast and woolen. EWE is a practice in manifestation. I created the ewe’s form out of drafting tape while sitting by the reflecting pond at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The materiality of the ewe is the same as her backdrop, representing the belief that we are a part of nature, that we are all made of the same stuff.

In the upper left corner, there is a piece of writing that reads:

“If there is meaning here I will find it, dripping from me like glue. Everything is so big here and it is mine mine mine. There is a heart at the center of this pond and the koi nestle into its roots, lily pads above casting dark moons onto their skin. I think this is all mine, all the moon shapes, all the water.”

In the ewe’s shadows, I repeat in pencil:

“To be a ewe is to know. To be a ewe is to know. To be a ewe is to know.”