*projection viewed as a part of the live performance


..the bottom up...Catching Souls
Commission: Partners for Sacred Spaces | Philadelphia Contemporary | Pew Center for the Arts &Heritage
Curation: Reggie Wilson
Direction | Cinematography: muthi reed
Direction | Concept | Choreography | Editing: Lela Aisha Jones

...the bottom up...Catching Souls is a take on what an ancestor, angel and/or spirit might manifest when they descend or ascend upon a sanctuary free to be without the necessity to serve people in the living realm...inspired by the ocean running along the walls of old pine, symbols on the walls including the anchor cross (mariners, sailors, stormy seas), scallop (baptism, initiation, water), pine cone (woodwork), cross (a place of intersection), cornucopia (promise land of milk and honey), flower (touching relationships, regrowth), and the literal layers upon layers of energies that call this sacred space home...open and you just might feel it and what if it's not about you?