2025 July // every.single.one.

Video-performance. HD video w/ sound. 16:02
This video-performance was created at the site of a large, half-alive cottonwood tree in a woodland near the Mississippi River in the American Midwest. The tree had been struck by lightning several years prior to making this work and weathered the storm. In June 2017, when this was shot, I had recently completed my last round of chemotherapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer earlier that year. The video is comprised of footage shot just days before my body was forever altered by surgery. It was the last opportunity to create a site-based piece with body in the landscape as I had known and worked with throughout my life as an artist and a woman. Multiple superimpositions of the figure appear, including a momentary image of the post-surgical body shot later, representing different states of process and being.

Production, post-production & performance: Cherie Sampson
(Establishing shot: Radim Schreiber)
Music Composition & Production: Charles Gran
Instrumental performances by: Elaine AuBuchon, oboe & Brian Kubin, cello