Watervapor, glass beakers, Usnea essence for: depression, apnea, inability to speak; and Birch polypore essence for: immunity, vitality, strength and resistance; San Juan remedy: for deep physical pain that comes from polluted waters; Cedar remedy: hope embodied, an essence of transformation

The Remedy Clouds were offerings made to the sky, precipitated from intentions of healing damaged lands, psyches, and bodies. This collaborative work between Ruth Le Gear and Kaitlin Bryson began in New Mexico and was released in Ireland where we joined on residency.

Each micro-cloud offered a healing gesture through medicinal energy. The clouds were created in glass bottles with water vapor that contained lichen and mushroom essences, as well as homeopathic remedies. Bryson prepared the essences, and Le Gear made the remedies through her traditional processes. Inside the glass bottles, the clouds were created by making high-and-low pressure systems. Once the clouds accumulated inside, we released them into the atmosphere at sites of trauma.

Both Le Gear and I explore methodologies for healing damaged places, and after considering many ways to combine our practices and geographic differences, we landed in the sky. It also helped that we were working in Ireland, in January, and so we were submerged in a cloud most of the time. However, we were interested in clouds because of their shapes, movements, and means of transportation. How they accumulate the world’s history and then drop it off at another location. How they move without borders or limitations. We released our healing clouds hoping that the energy put forth would fall and offer nourishment to places suffering from extractive industries, deforestation, monocropping, environmental injustices, and pollution.