Chris Omni (Tallahassee, FL) | Exchange (Kansas City) | October 2021

Chris Omni explored her artist identity through found objects from North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. This piece represents her growth process of moving from a 20+ year career in public health into a new, August 2020, identity as an artist. Being * Becoming * Growing is in direct communication with her second piece, Isolation * Invitation * Inclusion; however this piece speaks to her extroverted side. A side that has been traditionally front, center, and literally on stage. Omni created this site specific installation as a reminder of how we present to others and how we even frame our identities, even if it is not who we are at the core. Through this introspective creation, Chris Omni discovered a new dimension of herself and weaved it into the piece while dancing with the energy of the sacral chakra mantra, “I love all dimensions of myself. I delight in weaving the creative tapestry that is my life.” Being * Becoming * Growing invites YOU to look at your journey and grow in the direction that breathes life to your soul. Ase.

Chris Omni (Tallahassee, FL) | Exchange (Kansas City) | October 2021

Chris Omni explored her artist identity through found objects from North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. This piece represents her growth process of moving from a 20+ year career in public health into a new, August 2020, identity as an artist. Being * Becoming * Growing is in direct communication with her second piece, Isolation * Invitation * Inclusion; however this piece speaks to her extroverted side. A side that has been traditionally front, center, and literally on stage. Omni created this site specific installation as a reminder of how we present to others and how we even frame our identities, even if it is not who we are at the core. Through this introspective creation, Chris Omni discovered a new dimension of herself and weaved it into the piece while dancing with the energy of the sacral chakra mantra, “I love all dimensions of myself. I delight in weaving the creative tapestry that is my life.” Being * Becoming * Growing invites YOU to look at your journey and grow in the direction that breathes life to your soul. Ase.

Jasmine Best (Greensboro, NC) | October 2021

Toe Walker is an exercise in body awareness and personal appreciation. It encourages audiences to consider how they take up space in the world and how their body automatically navigates. The artist naturally walks on the balls of her feet. A trait that is hereditary but was also encouraged in girl children as benign a femme trait. Walking on your toes one is used to moving through the world quietly and minimally. This was interrupted by the very old and loud floors of Elsewhere. Jasmine decided to fight their instinct to walk on the quietest parts of the floor and actively seek out where the floor makes the most noise.

Toe Walker is made up of bright, balls of feet only, painted footprints that directly correlate to how loud the floor is where the most footprints reside. Toe Walker invites audiences to play with how much space they want to take up with their movement and how much attention they allow themselves to draw to their movement in Elsewhere.