erika a roos is a movement artist
and analog film maker
currently in/habiting earth

ルース・絵里花 
映像家、元ダンサー、宇宙人。




RECENT WORKS / 最近　
towards/away
overture 
dilation / interstitium
bodyleak 


IN PROCESS / 発行中
sensitive habitat


ARCHIVE / アーカイブ
approximations
dance piece in the dark 
refracting
絡新婦



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print / making 




time moves the body



( you hold your knees / covered in sunlight ) 


In the summer I made a series of booklets on risograph, bound in thread. They are discrete bodies who come from the same collection of writing and image. They are bound collages, unfolding, sprawling, secreting ink and smoke and bright color. The writing reflects on (un)controlled burns, loss and collapse of habitat, and the complex layers of time that make up a body. In the making of this body of work, I am asking: what comes forth within an ecological loss? How are acts of arranging, layering, printing, folding, adhering, binding, and cutting a kind of home-making when a home habitat is fractured? 



I am thinking about the way risograph ink is temporary, how the botanical residues from rice and soy never fully dry, are always malleable, subject to smudge and change and deterioration. I am thinking about the typewriter, that which carries the language from mind and tongue and spirit to paper, a kind of hand-processing which then is carried into machine to be re-processed. Much of this work is developed on the typewriter before it arrives here. The pressure of the fingers on the keys and the sounds of the typewriter - loud, clacking - try to find their way into this digital page, somehow. But perhaps that information is lost in the digitization, as is what happens in archival processes, in technological advancement. I am thinking about that profound, irreplaceable loss.