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Plant me with the Lavender  (2018)

April 28th - May 5th 

My undergrad thesis show displayed the works that I had made in one academic year, spanning multiple media such as; oil paint, film photography, ceramic, etchings, and a documented performance piece. This body of work reflects my passion about the soil and cycle of life. The show incorporated poetry with themes of natural burial and growth, reminding humanity we are one with the dirt our feet touch.

The paintings in this show were themed around a poem written by myself and Linzi Garcia, each painting is an illustration or representation of a line from the poem. The poem is as follows:

I wish I was a Garden 

by Kami Olson and Linzi Garcia

Plant me with the Lavender

braid my soft dark petals between uncut blades

press seedlings into each crease of my soiled skin

bury my root-turned toes to share kisses with worms

season by season I will grow

you will wait to harvest me

let the moon decide my shade

let the bees arouse me

and transfer my soul to the next sprig

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Performance Piece: Return

by Kami Olson and Isaiah Marcotte

This piece was filmed out on Heartland Prairie Cemetery near Salina Kansas, a green burial plot where the people laid to rest are buried without caskets or chemical preservation. It encourages the natural decomposition of the body into the land whilst letting the native plant life grow. This piece encompasses the final journey every one will face, in a peaceful submission to let go and be a vessel for life after death.  

Special thanks to Sarah Crews from the Heartland Burial Cemetery. 

(I do not own the rights to the music)

 

Reception photos courtesy of Jim Turner

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