Hi, I’m Cole. I am a maker.

I trust rigorous wonder and I love dancing. I facilitate both of these things.

It’s okay if you don’t understand me.

I’m interested in learning through creative praxis and human experiences. My work focuses on collaboration; imagination and intuition; cosmological inquiry; philosophies attending to self as a relational pattern of being; phenomenology and the noumenon; abolition and change – with a belief in creative process as inquiry and as a space for internal and societal r/evolution.

Absorbed in the concepts of love and time – in all its forms, I engage with inquiry and the promise of existence. I believe we as beings are like projectors aimed at one another. We project our own story over all we see. How do the inner workings of my “projector” and its process interact with your’s and what reality is formed? What do we see? What do you see as me? What are the layers of experience? And how has living in this society created who we each feel to be. How is it that when we communicate, i understand something, even if my understanding is not in the language you speak or just what you mean. I understand something.

Ritual, or a reverance to existence, grounds my way(s). It looks different every day. and sometimes it’s hard to find as it exists in the repetitive mundane.

A thing is always onto its next iteration. Action and history. They almost meet as they spiral around me. A creative feedback loop that allows change to be honored. Sometimes abruptly.


(Ni) Cole
(Ni): first-person plural pronoun
Cole: what most people call me
NB/Pan. She/Them/Its

still from video, garlando during a solo performance / talkback with art on the brain participants at the wexner center for the arts