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Maya

El Nahal

Disciplines: Sculpture

Materials: Assemblage, Found, Objects, Paper
Ravens build unusual nests. Though they start with a familiar twig structure, they continue using anything that catches their eye and fits their idea of home: mud, rope, bones, trash, grass. The nests can be huge, and perch precariously on edges throughout urban and wild environments. Caught somewhere between unwieldy, erratically sprawling, and spartanly maximal, I have a multi-disciplinary practice that connects with place by exploring spiritual, social, and scientific ecologies. I rely on encounter and am heavily invested in process, using sculpture, movement, and writing to enact rituals for the under-celebrated. With a background in biomedical research but driven by a tentacular animist intuition, my practice uses unexpected alliances to invite alternative perspectives. I want to create nests at edges.

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