Cosensing

In the closing day of co-sensing with QSR, artists from the Hyphae Collective came to share their bio-social art, practices and materials. We engaged the silkworm lessons alongside kombucha leather, mushroom paper, liken dyed thread and silk. With snippets from our time together, we co-created totems for messy transitions. May they anchor us to soft…

Caterpillars change skin five times. Shedding the dry-tight skin is about renewal, changing form, and making space for growth. Molting is letting go of dry-and-thick covers that keep worms tight. In molting, caterpillars enter a kind of ‘dreaming’ stage that allows them to crack the old and emerge again with softer, wetter, and more delicate…

To (rest in a) cocoon is to slow down. After a few weeks of constant devouring, silkworms arrest the munching on mulberry leaves and metabolize the green food into silk. Caterpillars have a digestive system that processes food into sericin and fibroin- in passing through their silk glands and combining as a spit, the sericin…

Silkworms are the real deal in soft creatures. Radically soft. Very very tender. And they become exceptionally soft in their peak moments of transitions, when shedding the tight skin, or especially when turned into a chrysalis inside the cocoon. Softening can take many forms. In this workshop session, we will explore becoming softer as the…

Silkworm’s lesson for today is on ‘anchoring’ – a practice that silkworms exercise before any major transformation. Anchoring with silk, the caterpillars establish the necessary supports for the shedding of the tight, old skin.  Today, we will create some anchors for our work together, see the research process for it in the pictures below. In this…

As we get closer to the start of the laboratory-workshop, I gather scores (sets of movement instructions), practices and materials around the altar. Inspirations and intentions- hand in hand.

In the next weeks I will be facilitating one more lab/study of cosensing as part of the Queer Arts Initiative, at Stanford University. The workshop, developed for the Queer Students Resouces Center, will engage with some of the teachings from silkworm colonies as a guide for collective change. Caterpillars’ lessons to synch., slow down, anchor,…

I spent the whole summer in Madremanya, a small town near Costa Brava. Thinking with and playing with silkworms and their teachings. It is absolutely crowded with Mulberry trees.

After 3 years of silent practice and cocooning, this site is up. A testimony of the multiple imaginal cells emerging into new forms. Welcome. Soon I’ll be posting some exciting news of upcoming projects!!.