MILK

MILK is an (im)possible endeavour from an exiled-being to produce and transmit the precious elixir of one’s culture(s), punctured by ancestral knowledge passed down by generations. MILK is a fermenting sculpture in 62 preserve jars made seasonally between 2022 and 2024 with the materials inside slowly energetically charging.

After completing this work, n:u had a moment of recognition that  their mother/Dani, who died 20 years before, was born in 1962 and would have been 62 when the work was first exhibited, which aligns coincidentally with the number of MILK jars they had made.

material: rum, n:u’s locks, hair, blood, pee, sugar cane, soil, kidney beans, foil, concrete, sage from n:u’s child’s graveyard, plants and things from n:u’s mother’s graveyard, candle wax, Kilner jars

installation view dirty nails, Eastside Projects, 2024. Image credit: Ashley Carr