“…an exploration of night’s bodies - stars, trees, people- and their intra-action/intra-permeation. How a change in ambient light might alter the perception of a body’s weight, and give way to recognizing a forest and a galaxy as both constellated. How one might feel the electrical activity of dreams coursing through the cold winter air and touch their remnants in a collection of bedsheets. And how my body, performing in a gallery, could dance through time with Sparks’ body, walking in the woods at the moment of inspiration that began the spiral process of bringing this installation to form. I call it a spiral process, because spiral movement both gathers in (centripetal force) and presses out (centrifugal force). Ideas pull together and push into the unknown.”
Rori Smith, dancer
Walking at Night, 2023 Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, Maine.