PEST
Born from the attention to roadkill, this project questions how we relate to those beings who best inhabit the worlds humans produce.
Whether human or non-human, the same language is weaponised to isolate and alienate those who should be seen as community.
Spreading through queer, crip, and mixed ancestral perspectives, this is a project of personal grief, joy, and acceptance.
Crippled, slumped Burmese zedi forms enshrining relics of so-called pest animals: Crow, Pigeon, Squirrel.
Zedis are sacred structures which house holy relics of the Buddha or other revered teachers. Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar's most famous, holds (among other things) eight strands of Gautama's hair.
