Weeding: Steve and Lisa's Garden 1, 2019

Digital video, 18 min.
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Simone Forti’s Weeding: Steve and Lisa’s Garden 1 (2019) shows the artist tending the garden of her longtime friends and collaborators, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson, at Mad Brook Farm in East Charleston Vermont, where she in a cabin for over a decade. The video lingers on the quiet work of weeding, drawing parallels between caring for the land and caring for the body. Forti’s deliberate movements—such as sustained focus on pulling dandelions—merge labor and dance, revealing how physical attention, whether to soil or self, nurtures both ecological and embodied well-being and awareness.