Swimming

in Air

while

rooted in Water

Swimming in Air While Rooted in Water is a physical collage series which utilizes elements of choreographed movement, large body-sculpture imagery, film, photography, and installation in a durational capacity. It weaves together the expressions of both our conscious and subconscious experiences within the feminine journey and the raw, intrinsic, and ingrained forms that circulate and penetrate our collective initiation into and throughout womanhood. Exploiting personal narratives, gathered stories, and subverted images, Swimming in Air While Rooted in Water exposes the vulnerability and power of exploring and owning our multi-dimensional female psyche.

Through a series of vignettes presented over the course of a year Babette DeLafayette cultivates a personal practice of sustainability, duration, and exploitation.

#swimminginairwhilerootedinwater

2017 - 2018

I

for Mothers who taught me this feeling and Women who know this to be true

II

will we burn down here like we do in heaven

[how we choose to carry one another matters]

III

it might be I always give out

IV

30 More Needed / hinting at absence

2019