This is ongoing living with meshing with and learning with companion species. Our milieu had many rescue animals in the spring 2020. A new assemblage and thus listening position was emerging. My art work consists of matters and critters I am alive with, who maintain me and I maintain them. Labour that tries to acknowledge invisible nonhuman but active agents that should be cared for and also are providing care. The problematic production of commodities has broth us in anarcho-primitivist creation of new land. It is not a return to nature but becoming homo natura. Circulation of matters are more intense and nurturing different creatures becomes a link between species when there is actual everyday maintenance one is bound to. To take care of nonhuman others is a demanding constant commitment and a possibility for learning for all partners. Animals roaming free learn from each other and make space, invade space, territorialize and deterritorialise. Along side of posthumanist, cultural animal studies reading we have learned even more of the co-exsistence. Art is what my companions do, and human animal is merely a collaborator with others. This is a creative evolution, involution where other species state. Is it possible to have a stand point in new materialist ethics when dealing with other animals?
a part of human hand dedicated to protect others
a curator of our multispecies family
circulating matters and sentient being
accountables at rest
