Improvisational drawings filmed via Go-Pro, Illustrating the year of the Fire Horse. 

Circling the Black Heart (2026)

American Academy in Rome Salone, Judson Memorial Church, NYC.

8 min. video with sound by Dara Friedman

A painting being unpainted by granddaughter and grandmother, Violet Handforth & Gundula Friedman, to a driving beat by I.U.D.’s Sadie Laska and Lizzi Bougatsos, while Bettina Funcke meditates on the cosmological wisdom of the nothing from which everything springs as a way to move (forward).

As Brian Eno stated, regarding whether making art could be deemed a political act: “…ways of composing are political statements”. Certain forms demonstrate “…a belief that things work according to that hierarchy”. However, you can then flip that structure upside-down or fan it out horizontally, cyclically. “...to make something is to express a belief in how things belong together. To me, that’s a political statement”.