suturing a wound (2023)
Moseley Road Baths
Commissioned by Itch

melissandre brings water from the swimming pool, 100 red roses, a rope, a jar of M.I.L.K, and a tarpaulin used in a previous performance, into an investigation of intergenerational healing mechanisms/trauma.

Invitations: the frontline herbalism podcast episode 18 rose medicine by Solidarity Apothecary // My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem // I wish I knew how it would feel to be free by Nina Simone

Photo : whipped with red roses by audiences, overfeeding red roses and nearby swimming pool water, walking with rope and flowers in a former bath
Credit: Ayesha Jones