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.
For Burnaway’s June Mood Ring, Michael Borowski interrogates the queer history of mineral spring resorts and bathhouses across Virginia and West Virginia.
Kicking off National Poetry Month, Z. Yasmin Waheed merges prose poetry and perfumery in Florida Water, a Mood Ring exploring Miami through olfactory memory.
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.
Rian (Raven) Crane explores contemporary Black Trans Southern aesthetics in this month’s Mood Ring through cyanotypes, written narrative, and lineage tracing.
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.
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.
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.
The user is invited to navigate several vignettes composed of clip-art collages and interface components common to web-based forms, with unclear and unexpected interaction results.
