Nicole Sigrid Stevens "bobe" (they/she) As a child my family used to call me " bobe scissorhands" as a nod to my incessant need to have a craft project equipped with scissors and a glue stick most if not all of the time. Not much has changed in that regard. tho its been a winding journey creatively, with various years of deep dormancy, however my hands have remained my guide back to my deep self again and again.
Creating has been my way of healing the wounds of disconnection, and honoring the polyphony of interspecies relations that have healed and tangled and merged and rooted themselves in the water table of my soul. It is where I find myself synthesizing the irreplicable impact of finding acceptance and belonging amongst violet flower, for instance. Or how I thank the quarry water and refracting leaf light for suspending me in miraculous awe time and time again. Its where I honor the humans and beings who have shaped me, who have loved me, who have shared their own imperfection and brilliance with this world that found me exactly when I needed it. Making and creating has been my gateway into liminal states, a portal where the construct of time pixelates, my feeling senses dilate, my interior starts to track quite threads of memory and meaning, and my hands, eyes and heart begin to coalesce in stories, catharsis, and reverence.
Moonstruck Medicine Show is an imaginarium devoted to the senses, to the numinous, to relationality and to becoming again and again tender, open, and alive! It is an interdisciplinary multimedia invitation to court the fecund, chaotic, heartwrenching and magnificently beautiful world we are made of. It is a prayer for re-membering ourselves into old and new ways of being and belonging. For finding our medicine we have to give, and giving with our whole selves.
