(っ◔◡◔)っ 💘Pre-Intertopia 💘 For Speech Sounds, Visual Carlow On until 21st Aug 2022 ⭐️Pre-Intertopia’ ⭐️stems from and draws from the cosmology, spiritual beliefs and ritualistic practices of the Shona people from Zimbabwe and its intersections with speculative interstellar travel 🚀The starting point of this research is attempting frame blackness in all its complexity and multidimensionality in a contemporary context. Wanderlust, movement and transportation between different spacetimes come into the conversation through conceptualising blackness not as a what but as a where and when. 📍 So so so many thank yous to give 💕This was with the help of so many people. Emotionally, physically and spriritually. Special shout out to all my loves. couldn’t have done it without you. Shout out to the @visual_carlow team, especially Benjamin Stafford, for the help & installing all of this whilst I could only help remotely. Most importantly, Huge Thank you to the one and only @iarlaith_nifheorais 💖💘💕 Thank you for trusting me throughout this process, supporting me and being there for me in so so many ways. The work couldn’t have been made without you. I’m so appreciate I got to do this with you x Sculptural installation: - Figure Sculpture - Gourd figure - Sand installation - 3 x A4 Oil stick drawings Photography by Ros Kavanagh, courtesy of VISUAL.