an apprenticeship to Deep Time
Relations of Practice
the work does not begin alone
Deep Time Lab has been shaped through teachers, texts, cohorts, practices, places, and sustained relations. These acknowledgements name some of the streams through which the work has learned to move.
001 / human teachers and facilitators
Teacher · transmitted practice
Daoist Path Dreaming
Through Liu Ming’s teaching, I encountered dreaming as a path of practice rather than a collection of symbols to decode. Daoist Path Dreaming shaped my attention to nondual perception, embodiment, season, change, and the subtle movements through which a life reveals its direction.
Artist · ritual performance
DeathPractice and DeathClown
Dare Carasquillo’s DeathPractice and DeathClown work taught me that mortality, ritual, absurdity, play, grief, and performance do not need to be kept separate. This lineage helped me approach death without stripping it of humor, strangeness, embodiment, or creative possibility.
Teacher · theoretical inheritance
Metaformic Theory
Judy Grahn’s Metaformic Theory gave me language for bodily processes as world-making practices. Her work has shaped how I think about ritual technologies, menstrual origins, cultural memory, and forms nested within forms.
Artist · facilitator · The Bleeding Circle, Mukta Reveal
The Bleeding Circle
Through Larissa Kaul and The Bleeding Circle, I learned to approach bleeding as embodied knowledge, ritual threshold, and collective practice. The circle also introduced constellation practices for externalizing a field through spatial relationship and embodied participation.
002 / textual and astrological inheritance
Ancient text · astrological inheritance
Tetrabiblos
The Tetrabiblos belongs to the textual inheritance through which I study Hellenistic astrology. I receive it not as a closed authority, but as part of a long and complicated transmission: an instrument to study, question, inhabit, and bring into living relation through timecraft.
003 / more-than-human relations
Estuary is shaped through relationship with a constellation of waters. These bodies do not function as symbols alone. They are living places, carriers of memory, routes of connection, and participants in the conditions from which the work emerges.
Creek · daily relation · immediate watershed
Lenapehoking
Nishisakawick Creek is the water I live beside now: a daily relation moving past the edge of home and into the Lenapewihittuk Delaware River. Through seasonal change, flooding, erosion, plant life, animal life, and accumulated histories, the creek participates directly in the conditions of Estuary.
River · connective current · watershed relation
Lenapehoking
Lenapewihittuk, or the so-called Delaware River is the larger current into which Nishisakawick Creek enters. It connects my present home to the tidal waters of Trenton, where I grew up, and continues onward toward the bay and ocean. It holds the project within a watershed larger than any one site or moment.
Bay · childhood water · ancestral memory
Tidal memory · family relation
Barnegat Bay carries the waters of my childhood: fishing, crabbing, clamming, boats, marshes, and summers near Toms River and Seaside. My father’s ashes were given to these waters. The bay remains a place where memory, kinship, grief, pleasure, and tidal knowledge continue to meet.
Coastal inlet · surrounding water · geographic relation
Atlantic watershed
Nolletquesset or so-called Shark River belongs to the coastal waters that have shaped the geography of my life. Alongside the Delaware River and Barnegat Bay, it forms part of the wider watery field surrounding the land I call home.