Carolina Potions
To close out the 2025 Mood Ring cycle, Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson present Carolina Potions, an interactive potion recipe game that pulls together hand-painted ingredients from the South as an ode to Durham, North Carolina.
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Out A Tomb / Outa Tuum
For September’s Mood Ring, Amaryllis Ara creates a sculptural interactive installation merging a graveyard and playground scene, pulling from memories of playing in the family cemetery at their childhood home in Manchester, Jamaica.
a Trace, Spring, Swell: A Speculative Archeology of Mineral Springs and Bathhouses
For Burnaway’s June Mood Ring, Michael Borowski interrogates the queer history of mineral spring resorts and bathhouses across Virginia and West Virginia.
Florida Water
Kicking off National Poetry Month, Z. Yasmin Waheed merges prose poetry and perfumery in Florida Water, a Mood Ring exploring Miami through olfactory memory.
On The Way Home: Sleepless Nights
Satori Nightshade presents a drifting series of vignettes that form a visceral narrative of the dance of revelry, decay, resilience, and grief that soaks New Orleans in this month’s Mood Ring titled On The Way Home: Sleepless Nights.
Sugar Babies and Black Diamonds: Marronage Age Daydreams in the Gulf South
Rian (Raven) Crane explores contemporary Black Trans Southern aesthetics in this month’s Mood Ring through cyanotypes, written narrative, and lineage tracing.
And Lumber Would Season the Walls
Valentina Jager Lopezllera explores the fragmentation of Huntsville prisons and greenspace surrounding them in this month’s Mood Ring titled And Lumber Would Season the Walls.
How To Get Free
Pieced together through collage, video capture, and a spoken poem, artist Kay-Ann Henry presents the intricacies of Afro-religious practices and Jamaica’s particular expression of obeah, pocomania, and kumina.
A Companion for Departure
Pulling from loss, the physical drop of objects and bodies, and three-channel videos, Arkansas-based artist Bethany Springer considers the slow-motion process of grieving, scientific experiments, and action as existence.
