out of bodily wounds burst forth scabs in the form of fruiting flesh that represents new possibilities, ways of being, and pathways through loss or trauma. In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde relays the Tsimshian story of Raven, who is introduced to the cyclical nature of mortality by being taught to ingest their own scabs, an image that has inspired me for years and now manifests in this work: “There is a circularity to eating here which suggests that, at some level, eating is self-eating, or that all who eat in this world must eventually themselves be eaten. In this world, everything that feeds will someday be food for other mouths; that is the law of appetite, or—as we’d now say—of ecological interdependence.”
