Memories of Blood (film and installation) explores the desire to return to a more instinctive self. Shapeshifting for survival the figure of the fox becomes a site of transformation and resistance to learned domestication, the work imagines becoming-animal as a movement toward queer belonging. Drawing on ritual, bodily metamorphosis the film explores the tensions that blood and animality evoke within the domesticated imagination. 

Blood often provokes fascination, fear, and discomfort, revealing the distance many of us have developed from the realities of embodiment and our relationship to the more-than-human world. Fox crosses into both human and animal worlds, fox lives in liminal space, fox is shapeshifter, is flexible and dynamic, fox can fit in and adapt to every space it inhabits. Fox lives alongside human and in some cultures and folk stories is said to be able to transform into human. Fox is independent & connected to intuition, fox is trickster and playful. Fox is resilient and can adapt to survive most any circumstance. Fox urges you to not forget who you are. 

Through the ritual act of becoming fox, Memories of Blood seeks to cross between worlds of fox and human. Shapeshifting as an act of queer transfiguration helping to lean into the animal body with blood as a tool to obscure perceptions of learnt purity. Memories of blood is not just a reconnection to ‘natural self’ but is an attempt to stay with the tension between what we are asked to be and what we still feel ourselves becoming.