paige raina davis is a fellow of whp in residence at confloptus in oakland for the month of december. we will host her open door on the 28th from 4-7pm. join us…

from paige:

“Intrigued by the phrase “body of work”, I’ve been considering my work as a means to sit beside, physically as well as energetically, my family’s artistic practices and their collective vision.

Just down the street from Confloptus sits the church my grandparents were married in, its wrought-iron, screened moongate serving as a mascot for my time here.

The month of December will be spent synthesizing texts and images from books of Doaist talismanic calligraphy, Chinese garden architectural motifs, and ancient jewelry pieces.

I am offering a form of meditation and mediation that connects the self to the many who came before and those who will come after, while at the same time proposing a body of time that sees no difference, no “before” and no “after”. How might ancient texts and practices, how might ever-present forms/concepts like shadow and translucence, aid in our collective vision and action of today, how might they lead us to open up new avenues of possibility, new sights/sites of truth?”