nicholas b jacobsen
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embodied / embedded
Abstractions can be reified by making them concrete. This can also be done in a more ephemeral manner through embodiment. I often use embodied practices, as exampled in to be a rock, to viscerally experience my body as embedded with/in the rest of the earth bodies with which I share our collective earth body. When I practice my rockness, I feel more of my own body and the deep history it shares with these lithic creatures.
I plan to continue this practice in coming works by embodying the weights of my settler-colonial history and communicating my understanding of these histories and their formative ideologies through a series of gestures like the ones in cling and pure/white.

see also: appropriate / appropriate, body, clinging, concrete, decolonization, ebb / flow, fake rocks / real rocks, inside / outside, land, myth, reify, remember / memory / memorial, rocks / stones, stable / settled, under / inner, "what is", white out / white supremacy
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  • home
  • Las Vegas Piece
    • Las Vegas Piece: The Art >
      • Pioneering Terra Nulliparous
      • Manifest Doomsday
      • “Thus while in plain sight, they remained invisible”
    • Las Vegas Piece: The Essay >
      • Modern Desert Markings
      • Las Vegas Mormon Fort
      • Mormon Mountains Wilderness
      • Mormon Well
      • The End
  • Unsettling Mormonism
  • from
  • to be a rock
  • about
    • more >
      • publications & posters >
        • glossary of unsettling origins >
          • answers / uncertainty
          • appropriate / appropriate
          • arrangement
          • baby and the bathwater
          • body
          • Book of Mormon, the
          • care
          • change
          • the Church
          • clinging
          • concrete
          • decolonization
          • Deseret
          • ebb / flow
          • embodied / embedded
          • extermination / excommunication
          • fake rocks / real rocks
          • fluid
          • Great Basin
          • groudlessness
          • home
          • human exceptionalism
          • ignor(e/ance)
          • inside / outside
          • kin(d)
          • Lamanites
          • land
          • Latter-days
          • magic / ritual
          • map
          • mountain / valley
          • migration
          • mine / mine
          • myth
          • noninnocence / risk
          • opening / closing
          • origins / foundations
          • path
          • phantom pains
          • problematic
          • Red (Cliffs National Conservation Area)
          • reify
          • remember / memory / memorial
          • rocks / stones
          • southwestern Utah
          • spiritual experience
          • stable / settled
          • there / their
          • this land
          • trauma
          • Ut(ah/opia)
          • under / inner
          • "what is"
          • white out / white supremacy
        • I' M P U R E (words)
      • our bodies as/of water
      • sculpture
      • watching the ground
      • sketches
      • pots are rocks >
        • about the clay
        • processing clay
        • pottery >
          • mugs, plates, & bowls
          • planters, baskets, & vases
          • pet bowls
          • ceramics archive