Katrina Bello
Consciousness Bloomed, Before We Sparked Fire, 2025
Looping single-channel silent video diptych embedded in media player
Edition of 3
Edition of 3
5 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 1 in ea
14 x 22.4 x 2.5 cm ea
14 x 22.4 x 2.5 cm ea
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This video diptych is a silent ode to the ocean as a site of migration and as the place believed to be where consciousness may have originated. It acknowledges bodies...
This video diptych is a silent ode to the ocean as a site of migration and as the place believed to be where consciousness may have originated. It acknowledges bodies of water as vast spaces that either link or separate people.
"The efforts a human must make to cope with these things reflect differences between life on land and in water, and the sea is the original home of the mind, or at least of its first faint forms."
—Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds
The artist made this piece for her solo exhibition, "Sky Into Stone," at the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, presented by Tusen Takk Foundation from September 2024—January 2025.
"The efforts a human must make to cope with these things reflect differences between life on land and in water, and the sea is the original home of the mind, or at least of its first faint forms."
—Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds
The artist made this piece for her solo exhibition, "Sky Into Stone," at the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, presented by Tusen Takk Foundation from September 2024—January 2025.