OPUS MAGNUM: BEING

BEING is DMo's true opus magnum. The living art playground is a revealing of such existence. In project literation, the  deep dive life exploration is a multi-arts project unfolding through multiple iterations across diverse media into all things that form the answer to the question ‘who am I?’.

Through the intertwining existences of life and creativity, DMo has always aimed to uncover fertile fields of remembering, putting forth both personal and public questioning of ‘who am I?’, and ‘am I really all the things I think I am?’. Tying into this bigger picture questioning are also the associated queries of “what am I?” and “what’s my purpose?”. Aside from informing the larger body of DMo's work, a special 3-part project has also emerged from within this exploration entitled RADICALIS, made up of Identity Tree, Family Tree and Spirit Tree. Fundamentally, this journey of remembering, that traverses ecology, cosmology, theosophy and beyond, continues to unearth roots that highlight ways we are all connected, how unity is intertwined with our uniqueness, the awesome aliveness of everything, and how song, movement and storytelling are essential tools and medicines.

RADICALIS

IDENTITY TREE
DMo created a list of all the aspects she could think of that made up her identity, both from a personal point of view and the associations embedded by the society in which she grew. From this list she created her first personal Identity Tree wall installation (2020). Taking a large flat canvas, DMo painted a multicoloured, swirling abstract base. Next she wrote each word or aspect on the canvas, and then cut the whole into parts according to each aspect. The canvas pieces were then placed on the wall in the shape of a tree measuring 2.5 x 4m. A blank template of the identity tree, created as an activity sheet for public participation, appeared in the limited edition artzine Questionmark (2022).
Is understanding how we identify our self, whether inherited or self-imposed, the root to freedom, because we then understand what we need to relinquish in order to let our true essence shine forth?

FAMILY TREE
DMo explores the various meanings of her name, as well as her family tree, ancestral lineage, and the possibility of past lives and lives lived beyond this earth. This part of the project will culminate in a video art installation.
How does our name and family roots affect the person we are, who we’re here to be, and what we’re here to do?

SPIRIT TREE
DMo flips the common Western paradigm of the material as the primary aspect of our being, exploring spirit as our primary aspect and the physical, material world as our secondary aspect, all ultimately connected as one energetic ocean or field. DMo is mapping this tree through a book trilogy that expresses a life creative and the pursuit of what is.
How does our life change, expand, exist if we become aware that our roots are spirit?