When two worlds meet they provide a third space. That space is Intermundia which, in its latin origin, is defined as the spaces between worlds where the gods reside.

Intermundia is the product of SBWoods slow emergence out of the dark after the loss of her husband, mother and brother, all of whom died within a short time of each other. Amidst grief and learning how to traverse the space between the worlds where the living and the dead meet, Woods found healing within the meditative awareness that arrives from weaving stones, carding wool, and sewing with horsehair. As the needle threads and the hand weaves, so does the mind move through the visible and invisible spaces of memory, love, longing and belonging.

A stone sculpture of a women, (accompanied by a recording of spoken word), a reflecting pool sculpted in the form of a human body, a wooden wing, and more clay and wax sculptures further express the liminal passage of grief and comprise the installation titled Lemuria; the fabled lost continent under the Indian Ocean's floor. Also included in the show are several performative informed photographs, referring to myths and other worldly visitations while exploring the shadow-light reflected in a well on her land. The well becomes both portal and entry point for the light and the dark to convene.

In honor of the poet Anna Akhmatova,
from her poem "Loneliness" written in 1914.
Her work circulated in secret despite Stalin's 
constant surveillance of her home and all of
her communications. Her entire family were
sent to the Gulag ... two of them returned.

Written, Summer 1914, Slepnyovo

Loneliness
So many stones are thrown at me,
They no longer scare.
Fine, now, is the snare.
Among high towers a high tower
I thank its builders: may
they never need a friend.
From here I can see the sun rise earlier
And see the glory of the day's end.
And into my window
fly the winds of a northern sea,
A dove eats wheat from my hands...
And the Muse's Sunburnt hand
Divinely light and calm
Finished the unfinished page>

Translation by D.M. Thomas

In honor of the 15th century mystic Marguerite Porete. After finishing her book: The Mirror of Simple Souls, Porete was burned at the stake by the Papacy in Paris.

Originally titled "Le Mirouer des simples ames anienties et qui seulement demeurent en vouloir et desir d'amour." Translated The Mirror of simple Souls who are Annihilated and Remain Only in Will and Desire of love.

Her book is an extended conversation between Love, Reason, and the Soul. Despite its wide distribution Porete was not identified as its author until 1946.

Porete coined the phrase: The Far-Near.