ELEONORA EDREVA
Projects:
re-
inearth/unearth
At each doorway,
Yelling Pillow
Cradle to grave
re-patterning slowly
The sound that surrounds
Once upon a future
A Garden...
Windy Season
Eau Doom
Video Work
Writing
About
Substack
re- consists of several interconnected and overlapping parts. I planted the oats through a weaving I made that was adapted from a kitchen cloth woven by my maternal great-grandma. The weaving, the planting ritual, the care for the growing oats, and the subsequent harvesting, tincturing, bottling, and gifting of the milky oats were done in the intimacy of my home. The version of the piece that existed in the gallery space was artifacts from these rituals - a piece of the weaving, three woven photographs, jars of milky oat tea.
In this way, re- served as a healing ritual around a personal ancestral history of disconnection from soil, while also using it a foundation from which to offer invitations for healing to the humans and soils of my life in Albuquerque. The piece is thinking about the practice and work of care and nurturing, and posits that investigating carried histories is more powerful when done from the individual and collective levels simultaneously.