We are examining the language around invasive species, used scientifically and colloquially, to identify how tenants of settler colonialism are present in our personal and species wide efforts to forge just relationships to land.
Beyond following the work of humans, we are humbly seeking guidance from the intelligence of invasive, alien, exotic, and native species cohabiting on the land with us.
We are seeking to challenge our perceptual habits. When we pay attention and listen to our bodies and the bodies all around us, we remember our connections in the web of life.
bios:
Heron was born into a family in Appalachia in July of 1986. Heron’s dad Will died in November of 2022. Before he died, he went on a pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, where he obtained this Celtic ring.
Some of Coda’s movement studies are documented below