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Initial Encounters explores strategies for establishing relationships between objects— the landscape and that which inhabit it (humans, rocks, trees, water, etc). The work utilizes performance, video, textiles and sculpture, to propose a location for dialogue— for a non-anthropocentric social engagement. As a material foundation, handwoven flags serve symbolically as both marker of territory and representative object. Set in the Arctic— the glacial north of Alaska’s Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Icelands glacial lake, Jökulsárlón— and the desert—White Sands National Monument— notions inherent to ice + sand, such as, permeance, state change, and slipperiness meander into the field of questioning.