VIdEOS
Waking the Sea (2025)
"Waking the Sea" is a journey across water through the growth of civilization in a dialog between the Japanese landscape, the unseen world of spirits, and the beings that move across culture and through time. Using my paintings as independent agents in the act of discovery, they help tell the story of the river and the factory through a feminine sensibility.
"Waking the Sea" is edited by Clare Altman, the performer in the film is Arata Mino, and the soundtrack is by Rob Brown -flutes, bass clarinet and saxophone by Rob Brown, percussion by Satoshi Takeshi.
“Waking the Sea” is rooted in the collaborative project and international installation, “SEAsaw Sailing the Cosmic Sea: Kiso River,” (2023) at Mh Project in Ichinomiya-City, Japan between Jo Wood-Brown, (US), Arata Mino (Japan), and Jean Carla Rodea (Mexico/US) that originated at Pioneer Works, Redhook, NY, 2021. The project relies on the interdependence of histories as told by the River.
The Origin Myth of the Dreaming Woman (2023)
This story evolved from a desire to find a connection between myself and the migrant workers where I grew up. I began to imagine the freedom of their minds to wander, their daydreams as they labored. As a response, I painted Dreaming Woman. She is ephemeral and manifests in many different forms, geographies, histories, and genders. I did not invent her, nor when I cease to exist will she vanish. This origin myth is told in the unexpected place between reality and fiction, with imagery both real and imagined.
Dwelling (The Origin Myth of the Dreaming Prisoner) (2021)
The squatting sylph-figure Dreaming Prisoner with a plant that grows from her mouth, is inspired by a Kurdish journalist Zahre Dogan, who made a similar drawing while imprisoned in Syria. I see Dreaming Prisoner as the protectress of Dwelling—a spirit that watches over an ephemeral home, a place of origin. This film was made in response to the Lost Voyage Residency at FiveMyles Gallery, and includes performances by rebeca medina, Miriam Parker, and Jean Carla Rodea.
Other videos (2012-2020)
