The Dream
We should probably just try and make new worlds together.
CIS MANIMAL 3: The New Hatchet
Cisman remembering the rite of the hatchet he was given at 6, returns and begins to build again.
CIS MANIMAL 2: Lost Pleasures
Memories of profound tenderness and ecstatic union flood this refugee of reproductive society into a terminal heartbreak. Transformed through death he finds himself re-united with bare life.
CIS MANIMAL 1: Remembering
A first movement study in visibility, embodiment, and the soft undoing of inherited masculine posture. Filmed as a solitary encounter between body, camera, and forest, this piece begins the series’ inquiry into what a visibly cis male body may remember when it is no longer performing usefulness, certainty, or control. The work approaches movement as a form of listening: not toward mastery, but toward the return of sensation, vulnerability, and animal presence.
Always Incomplete
What matters now is what’s close: the texture of connection, the beauty of questioning together, how and for whom we choose to show up and care, what we name, what we hold back. These choices shape the worlds we live in. I explore what it means to come close—with others, with our environment—through this awareness. Closeness as a kind of choreography, a performance of relation, and a quiet refusal of the political, held in the singular hope of meeting in the wildcat total.
Hollow Season
Cismanimal emerged through a long dry season.
Video Poetry
Ongoing Over the past several years, I've crafted a small series of short video poems. My hope is that these video poems serve to bring a tiny tranquil pause—a contemplative space in the stream of an otherwise hyper-stimulating digital landscape. Simultaneously, these works serve as a means to honor and elevate moments of utmost significance in my life. They have proven effective in processing my memories and experiences through an artistic synthesis, allowing for a deeper exploration and understanding of the emotions attached to these cherished moments.