Everything is practice.
Everything is desire.
My practice is the same as my existence.
My existence is the same as my desire to practice.
I move in parallel lines yet sometimes desire means to cross them;
To communicate with forces that propel me toward more practice.
A trail remains as energy--
always patterned lapses of time,
sometimes documented in spaces like this one.
If I wished to stop practicing,
if my desire ever ceased to exist,
I believe I would too.
So, as a pulse pushes forward,
Everything as practice.
Everything as desire.
With deep love and gratitude,
I thank you for being here,
Brooke
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Owner/Operator, Likely General
Owner/Operator, Length of a Candle End of Life Services
Musician, Loom
Co-editor, The 4 Poets
Photograph by Brendan George Ko
INELDA Certified Death Doula
BFA OCADU, Photography
Queen's University, Literature, Art History, Film
Loyalist College, Photography
Documentations/Publications:
*please visit ‘sound’ for Loom documentations
2019, If Death Then Love: 47 Moments, explorations in sound, silence, and poetry
2018, So far from the water and thirsty, book collaboration with Alicia Nauta
2018, Latitude: Vol 1, Women in Cannabis, published by Latitude Publishing Co.
2016, If Death Then Love | If Thirty Then 31, You Care Too Much, published by Without/Pretend
2014, Of Silence, The 4 Poets, published by Swimmers Group
2011-2013, The Tape Project, rituals performed for 365 days on tape
2010-2012, The Soul Project, rituals performed for 365 days with vessels containing the souls of participating strangers found on craigslist
Various Published Works, 2007 - 2014 also located in:
Petal Journal
Lighthouse Journal
Queen's Literary Journal
His/Hers
OTM
OLD Quarterly
Poetry Method
Various Exhibitions & Installations, 2010 - 2017:
Two Left Feet, photography, OCADU Gallery
Confessions, paper and envelope, installation, Labspace Studio
Truths, video and sound installation, Warner Gallery
Seeing, photography, Lens Work Gallery
See Saw, video installation, Warner Gallery
Slight, video and sound collage installation, public space
We Don’t Know When, video and sound installation, public space