earthfruit / erika a roos / ルース・絵里花 (b. yokohama) is a queer, mixed-race, mixed-species artist, creature, and organism currently living & learning among red tailed hawks, california buckwheat, black locusts, and coast live oak trees. through tactile, experimental practices with 16mm film, site-sensitive installation, video-based performance, risograph printmaking, and writing, erika contends with how bodies (im)materialize, move, touch, and shift, with attention to complex, interspecies, inter-elemental relationships that oscillate through dis/integration, de/composition, and dis/appearance.
erika is currently working on a two-channel 16mm film installation that explores entanglement, material interdependence, and generative loss. with celluloid film as performer, and projector-celluloid-screen as organism, this work considers embodiment through film, within and beyond (moving) image.
accompanying this work is an experimental chapbook: an extension of the filmic apparatus, and life of the filmic performance-installation, (re)presented through print. the chapbook is a contour and a counter; a reproducible form of the irreproducible.