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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/1626626725787-712ROPI9G7839BA17TPG/IMG_8951.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/1626627291030-DAO1EZFIOZX1L01UCNYL/IMG_8975.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/1626627157533-YKAP8WJXU0S0CTH6M2U4/IMG_8956.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/86845816-c66c-43d7-8b32-cc2ded765108/WEB_Summer-Solstice-2024-Current-Space-165-.jpg Work - Groundswell Spell "Groundswell Spell" is a 10-minute double overhead projector and crankie shadow puppet performance, crafted from plastic packaging and paper refuse. It is accompanied by a recorded soundtrack composed and performed by Marian McLaughlin, and live vocals. Groundswell Spell is a light and shadow meditation, an offering to those who came before us who knew that all was kin, that god was rock as much as sky, who danced in cyclical time. Artists who have collaborated on performing “Groundswell Spell” include Katherine Fahey and Peter Redgrave. photos by Laura Ferrara of a 2024 performance as part of a “Summer Solstice Celebration” curated by Georgia Beatty at the Current Space Gallery in Baltimore, MD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/e0bcc2d1-c3f4-45fc-a849-6dbd41a415ce/Summer-Solstice-2024-Current-Space-161+photo-Laura-Ferrara.jpg Work - Who are we / But If not / Of Each Other Honor to those who came before us / Who knew that all is kin / Whose gods were rock as much as sky / Who danced in cyclical time Where were you / the last time your animal eye / saw them running through the fields / grass stalks high, in the quivering night Who were you then? / An amoeba, a starfish, a shooting star? / Antlered or hooved / your body, a primordial substance / Pooling in eroded rock, / brimming, spilling, running across Did you feel a space / Between your skin and the sea / Encounter there your deities / Wet, webbed, feathered, scaled / Piled high in flocks / Swarming towards rivers, rocks / In many bodied consciousness / One by one / but none Do you re-member / Your own / flying, fluttering, swarming through sky / Eyes on High / Honking calls, trailing, hailing / snows in fall / holding sounding calls What were you then? / Wordless mouth against the earth / Burrowing, breathing, dreaming / What had not been broken yet / What had not been taken. Torn, worn, sworn / What ground did your tears water? / Who was your kin? / Who are we / But if not of each other / All in bodied knowing / And in animal remembering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/70a97b37-896f-49e8-a327-e4eb211523b7/Loon_HolyRiver_Populoh_OPEN+YOUR+EYES.jpg Work - The Loon “The Loon" is a lullaby book inspired by the song of the same name by Richmond-based band Holy River. Laney and Jameson reached out to me in 2023 to ask me to collaborate on this book project, for which I made original papercut illustrations and watercolors based on a book idea by Laney. In 2025, I crafted a 5-minute double overhead projector and crankie shadow puppet performance, for a series of shows with Holy River that celebrated the book’s release. The book is available here, and a video featuring the song and shadow show, made by Laney, follows below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/1a14a0c1-018b-41af-9923-2750a205743e/SimpleTruth_MarianMcLaughlinAlbumRelease_ManorMill_2024-2.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/59c81a2b-962a-4aa7-a0d7-01a7e30d9881/Populoh_SimpleTruth_Performance_BCPT_11.23-wPeterRedgrave.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/f8809ae5-32ea-47e3-b84c-eea55d11ebae/SimpleTruth_ProcessPhoto-Butterfly-Yellow.JPG Work - Simple Truth This overhead projector shadow puppet performance is inspired by Marian McLaughlin’s song “Simple Truth,” and the experience of finding your grounding and perspective as a result of being out in nature with hawk, butterfly and oak. https://www.valeskapopuloh.net/about daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e25409f43b55ca511384c8/1626628298866-RT8CR2CJY0CVHNQWMAQ2/VeeSpeaksPlantsPossible1.JPG About - Make it stand out photo by Peter Redgrave as part of a collaboration for The Trying Times, a zine project by Chenda Cope and Donna Oblongata (April 2021). https://www.valeskapopuloh.net/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://www.valeskapopuloh.net/press daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://www.valeskapopuloh.net/store daily 0.75 2023-09-19