Syon Davis

I am a love letter to my lineage. My art practice is an exploration of what it means to exist in my body on this earth at this time. My work is made up of artifacts from my decolonization process – an active and intentional practice of shifting away from colonialist, anti-black, patriarchal, cis-heteronormative, and human-supremacist ways of being. Replacing those societally-programmed behaviors and patterns with ones rooted in loving somatic awareness, pleasure, acceptance, and right relationship with the land is what informs my process.

My worldview is largely inspired by biomimicry – I experience plants, animals (including humans), arthropods, and fungi as mirrors and opportunities for reflection. Much of my work focuses on reclaiming my identity as a natural being and being in relationship with my body and other life forms as such.

I am a neurodivergent person for which sticking with any one medium sounds tedious and impossible. I am excited by the infinite nature of life and intend on spending my time on earth exploring the infinity within myself and others.

In my current iteration, I am exploring the aforementioned ideas through the mediums of movement, collage, film, textiles, & the written word and at the intersections of those things.

I was raised in Pomona, California, currently reside in Portland, OR and have loving roots of lineage in Kingston, Jamaica, Tatums, Oklahoma, Alabama & Mississippi.