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Artist's statement

The Building of Homes is one work from the larger body of my doctoral research. My research is an attempt to reveal alternate modes of representation and viewing that allow for present nonhuman agencies to become visible within an art work or installation of works through the practice of anthrodecentrism. Anthrodecentric art is the outcome of this practice. Anthrodecentric art is art that does not create nor reify a position of privilege for the human actors as a central point or perspective, but aids in revealing the agency of nonhuman actants present in the materials, processes, and receiving of art.⁠ As such, anthrodecentric art seeks to actively refuse the positioning of nonhumans as a resource for human consumption and allow the nonhuman agencies to be present in their own capacities and allow room for their agencies to become visible, avoiding a longstanding  framework that has suppressed their presence.