BACKGROUND:
The metaphors for what tie us together are moving. Ideas of what is ‘in our blood’ are becoming expressed through what we think is ‘in our DNA’. This “rhetorical drift” both reflects and enacts changes in how we imagine, and manifest our selves through each other.
This shift creates potent concoctions of the folkloric with the scientific. Blood and DNA are signifiers of the evident and the transcendent facets of what traditionally forms relations, families. They are thought of as ‘thicker than water’.
But what of other things that tie us together? To Be Two is my exploration of the other materials we use, actions we perform and stories we tell each other to create relations, bonds and biomes.
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