Scatter. Enclosure
orThe Herd Comes Down to Dream, 2022-ongoing

Writing, doctored natural history images, archival research


In this unfurling work that combines writing and archival research, I consider a collective herd and ecological memory that dies, resurges, and transforms with the disappearance and reappearance of the Milu, a once extirpated deer. Embodiment – what the animal is and what it experiences, remembers, transmits – is explored through questions of transformation, memory (genetic and ecological), grief, and death, against a backdrop of political movements – land reforms in the UK and the Boxer’s Rebellion in China across the 19th-21st centuries. 

The first text from this project was published in "Making Kin" in 2022 (Cthulhu Books, editorial platform for the Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid): https://cthulhubooks.com/Making-Kin and a continuation of the research was enabled by the Delfina Foundation, London, in Winter 2023. 
PDF available upon request