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Solitude of a Pickled Feather

A fragile, brined-mosaic of memory and loss: a dance of solitude, preservation, and the archive of grief.

by Cameron Childs

curated by Malcolmx Betts & Arien Wilkerson as part of the Black Aesthetics Series at Judson Arts Wednesdays

This work gathers a series of embodied remnants—memory shards, repeated gestures, whispers of loss—to construct a living mosaic of remembrance. Solitude of a Pickled Feather moves through the tension between preservation and distortion, asking what it means to hold onto someone who is continually slipping away. The piece treats grief as a continued arrival and departure — an unspoken rhythm that never fully lands, yet remains persistently felt, shaping the body from within whenever and however it occurs. It explores seclusion, repetition, tenderness, and the slow erosion of memory, all while considering how the body becomes both archive and artifact—fragile, heavy, solitary, and collective at once.

ARTISTS:

Cameron Childs: Choreographer, Composer
Jahnell Boozer: Performer, Collaborator
Daniel Gray: Performer, Collaborator, Assistant
Rachel Orji: Performer, Collaborator