Piper Snowber / The Milkweed, Latent. The Home, Returned./ Studio Channel Islands Art Center
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Piper Snowber
The Milkweed, Latent. The Home, Returned.
Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
April 4, 2025
Developed from the experience of witnessing the loss of their family’s home due to the Mountain Fire, Piper Snowber created this installation, ritual, and performance to initiate a conversation around climate grief, to deepen connection with the Earth and process the changes within it. While acknowledging the devastation that fire has caused, this piece explores the sanctity of fire and challenges our separation from it.
Gently hanging from the ceiling and mounted on walls are textiles with various plants sewn into them. This process reflects the experience of climate grief: a personal attempt to preserve the natural world while also acknowledging the inevitability of its decay. Draped across the ceiling, gauzy fabric and a garland of aloe hung above the heads of the participants. A poem, sewn into a large, circular fabric lay below. The poem explores humans’ modern-day relationship to fire, and how we respond to it with violence, fear. Rings of eucalyptus, soil, shells, rotting lemons, oranges, pomegranates, milkweed pods, and candles surrounded it.
