Isopod Boy 4

In dialogue between Foster, Rorich and McGarry, the considerations of isopods in their significant contribution to composting kelp, and keeping our beaches clean, their ability to warn of changes in the ocean, and transport matter and matterings, we felt an overwhelming yearning to stay with the isopod’s collaborative intelligence. In this sculpture series Rorich explores what he calls a “communal unfolding”. In his words: “As the isopod unfurls the boy keeps walking. As the boy keeps walking the isopod unfurls. We are not separate, we are all direct and full openings for the divine unfolding of all of life - within us and around us. No matter what we do and where we go, nature is us, and we are nature.” It is this unfurling and opening of ourselves to other ways of knowing, being and doing, that we yearn for, and through this multi-species sense-making, we imagine new ways of living well together.