She Drinks the Moon

She Drinks the Moon is an installation-based project rooted in embodied experience, grief, devotion, and co-creation. The work explores light not as an external or borrowed phenomenon, but as something generated through presence, interaction, and internal transformation.

The project emerged following the death of Tom, a long-term creative and emotional partner. During a moment of physical rupture—marked by disorientation, collapse, and aftermath—the artist experienced a profound sense of transmission: a felt integration of another perspective carried within the body. This experience became the conceptual and material foundation for the work.

Rather than functioning as narrative or memorial, She Drinks the Moon operates as a practice of co-creation. The work is guided by an internalized relational intelligence—an ongoing dialogue that informs decisions of form, light, scale, and duration. Light, in this context, is not displayed but activated; it comes into being through proximity, attention, and participation.

The installations require the presence of the viewer to be completed. Through interaction, the work stimulates perceptual awareness and interior response, inviting viewers to recognize their own capacity for illumination. Light becomes an exchange rather than a source—received without depletion, generated through relationship.

She Drinks the Moon exists within the larger conceptual framework of Weight of Witness, an ongoing body of work examining love, grief, responsibility, and transformation. As an installation ecosystem, the project is intended for institutional and site-responsive contexts, engaging space, movement, and duration as integral materials.