At the beginning of this month, I attend a conversation that adrienne maree brown had with Columbus College of Art & Design. After it ended, I felt invigorated, empowered, hopeful. Many of the strings of research and life approach that she shared were familiar to me, as I have been practically obsessed with her work lately. But no matter how many times I hear her sharings, they strike me with deep profundity every time. Toward the end of the conversation, a.m.b. responded to

How do you make one minute feel compelling? Complete? How do you craft a condensed beginning, middle, end? How do you show a passage of time? A transformation? In the first weeks of the semester I started a practice of filming my feet walking the same path diagonally across my backyard toward an exposed root, past which my camera would sit. At the end of each walk I would stand, taking in the textures beneath my feet, interacting with the sensations those textures produced. I