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earth flow 

Tei Kobayashi and Hella SongBeetle 

Tei Kobayashi led the visiting artist workshop at CSU Pueblo, introducing students to Butoh and Katsugen Undo performance and healing techniques. Earth Flow Rebirth was a collaborative performance that emerged from the workshop. Pueblo Clay was poured and yoiked, a vocal embodied healing, as Tei slowly pulled the 40-foot canvas, allowing the painting to grow.  The rebirth evolved as Tei slowly wrapped and unwrapped using traditional Japanese cloth soaked in mud. The resulting painting has been stabilized with damar resin.

Performers: Tei Kobayashi, Helen Eberhardie Dunn aka Hella SongBeetle, Bob Marsh, Karen Yescavage, Veronica Moffitt, and Ember Peaslee.

time + action + remains = ART

‘How do evolving timelines invite intersections with ecology, expansion, and contraction?’

As an interdisciplinary artist, I explore conversations about spiritual ecology, creating immersive experiences through sculpture, performance, and installation that invite expansive awareness. I aim to create spaces for connection, reflection, and alternate perspectives. I am committed to contributing to a more just and compassionate world.

 

How can art catalyze change and inspire us to reimagine intersections between social and environmental justice and personal and collective change? My work is led by investigative approaches, incorporating locality, clays, found objects, pigments, fibers, plants, film, photography, sound, and light.

‘Can we experience spatial relationships through vibration harmony and dissonance?’

This work centers on curating collaborative ritual performances informed by solastalgia, our experience of climate change. EARTHflows is an ongoing project based on locality, reverence for the natural environment, and community collaboration. It includes EARTHflow Ritual Performances, Earth Experiments, and Ritual Action Flow Paintings.

As director of the ecological art collective SkySoulStudio, I host a platform exploring solastalgia. We are a developing collective of environmentally aware creatives collaborating on investigations into impermanence and ecofeminism. Public engagement in community events offers the potential for reframing ideologies of contraction. Art can unite people, challenge assumptions, and inspire us to envision new possibilities.

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