Convergences

2021–2023

Convergences is a moving image work shaped through sustained attention to place as a living field, and to how places adapt over time.

The work grows from meeting place as a living field rather than a backdrop. Land appears as a community of relations. Soil, rock, water, plants, weather, bacteria, roots, bones, and breath move together. A place is not a surface. It is a shifting set of negotiations. I move within it as another temporary arrangement.

I am drawn to edges and crossings, to sites where systems overlap. Creek lines, ridges, eroded rock faces, changes in soil, shifts in wind. These are places where different pressures and times meet. They can feel protective or unstable. They show how life holds together through adaptation rather than settled form.

With illness and periods of limited mobility, I learned to move by learning how places move. My sensory system takes in more information than it easily filters. By staying with one location over time, I learn its regularities and disruptions. Where water bends grass. Where wind shapes bark. Where soil holds or releases. This becomes a way of knowing when to move, how to rest, how to stay.

The film follows this slow learning. It traces desire lines, informal paths shaped by repeated movement rather than imposed design. Animals make them. People make them. Weather makes them too. These are not shortcuts. They are records of how movement is negotiated within a place, shaped through repeated contact between bodies, terrain, and weather.

Convergences also holds shared histories carried by bodies and landscapes. I grew up within family histories entangled with land use, farming, plant cultivation, development, and political power. I witnessed land being cleared, misused, and devalued. I also witnessed how certain bodies and lives are treated in similar ways. Disregard moves across territory and flesh.

The film does not explain this directly. It stays with how land continues to mend. How roots alter their shape around stone. How water persists. How structure and softness coexist. These processes sit alongside my own slow repair.

Convergences is a listening practice.

It sits between thinking and sensing.

Between movement and stillness.

Between the human figure and the wider field of life it moves within.

Attention becomes a way of belonging.

“We are all part of this.”