"Limbs” is a series of gatherings where we can co-create our rituals of regeneration. As destruction of lands, shelter, peoples, hopes and ideals continues under the hands of out of control, self-righteous, weaponized humans, we can grow the ability and imagination to create & perform our rites of healing, instead of entrapping our wounds with trauma and despair.

In the first art making ritual we invited people from many paths to create clay limbs in honor of the countless bodies we have witnessed in pieces over the last year. The second, “Blastema” fired the clay in the earth through a collective ceremony of poetry, song and story. Staged at Indexical, the third invites you to experience and connect to the charred limbs as portals to parallel realities that are inexorably intertwined with ours, with the burning possibilities in our hearts. 

The exhibition includes workshops, performances and an installation of the Limbs sculptures. The Limbs are for sale to raise funds to support reconstructive limb surgery and grass roots relief initiatives responding to the humanitarian and shelter disaster in Gaza and Lebanon.

Unidentified body parts are made up of numerous creative hands and bodies. At a time where regional powers and imperial powers wage their wars for primacy, and peoples populate their statistical maps as civilian casualties and unwilling victims. We all face the risk of becoming numbers, our personal stories erased and our social fabric atomised. Yes, bombs might melt our features into unidentifiable mucks. And if we’re privileged enough to survive the bombing, our critical political thought might be detained and our opinions, bodies and faces tracked and our rights dispossessed. We thus freely choose  to be unidentified, as an act of free will, as a way to pay homage to all those who’s shattered bodies remained unidentified and as a yearning to melt into the collective creative body.