REFLEXES

2024 - present

Ali Van and Miranda ZYVB are cousins and collaborators. REFLEXES is an extension of a conversation offering direct and indirect sacred forms; and insight into presence, placeness, and family story. Here, Ali and Miranda cocreate with image and text protocols set to call response to a shared viscerality, to living by oceans in virtual space and time.

2025’s REFLEXES move with the weather. Guided by internal and external climactic energies, WEATHER REFLEXES cast fate to forecast.

REFLEXES is supported by a.f.t. Cooperative, and its WEATHER REFLEXES is on view this summer at the Wedding Cake House’s Word Shelter (July-August 2025). Below a sampling:

05.16.2025

PSYCHE OPPOSES IRIS
CRAWLING TO A STAND
RESTING WITH PASSION
SURPASSING & STOPPING
TO BIRTH TO GIVE
A PLACE FOR HEALING

MOON SEXTILE PLUTO
FINALLY A FULL HEART
KETTLE PRE-SCREAM
AT A ROLLING BOIL
BALANCE WITH GRIEF

AND GRATITUDE

02.14.2025
Valentine’s (APART)

MOON SQUARE SATURN
SOOT SPRITE SYMBOL
OF MAGIC & GOOD GRIT
CAREFULLY FULL OF CARE
MOVING W/ WISDOM LIKE
EARTH BANKING WATER

Image 1: ‘Six Swimmer Ocean Swim’, Katherine Bradford, 2022. Image 2: A petri close-up showing environmental CO2 increase offering bountiful respiration for tropical trees, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands.

FULL BOOK MOON RISES
SWOLLEN SQUARES SWEET
BEAN BAKES UNPACKING
SHELTERED DREAMS FORE
TWILIGHT KIN & MIDDLE
NIGHT ILLUMINATIONS

03.13.2025
Lunar Eclipse Virgo
Full Blood Moon
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MERCURY RETROGRADES
LITTLE LIONS WITH
EARS IN THE SUN AT
ALL HOURS HITHER WHOLE
TO LET THE MUSIC
SLOW GUIDE A NEW PEACE

A CONTINUATION
OF THROWING PHONE
INTO FOUNTAIN
(G)LISTEN(ING)
SILENT
ATTUNING TO PULSE

04.16.2025

SATURN & NEPTUNE
CONJUNCT TODAY
THIS MORNING’S DREAM
SLIDES PLAYFULLY DOWN
THE WOOD GRAIN - TWO
SPIRITS IN THE MIRROR

MERCURY IN LEO
BRIGHT EYED BIRDS CALL
PRESENCE, PRESSURE
HOME
TO REINSTATE HEARTH
HEARTS

Soil

Dust

Sand

Wind

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