Opening for Beverly Glenn-Copeland at East End United Church, Toronto. December 2025. Photographer Green Yang.

A single from the Shift Circuit cycle. Black Gaze is a study in texture and refusal, taking its name from Tina M. Campt's A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021), which names the practice of looking with the weight, refusal, and intimacy of Black study rather than being looked at through the white gaze. The song lives in that turning. Texture as method. Refusal as form. The cover sits in the same field as the rest of Shift Circuit, a 2024 album about sentience and ferality.

Shift Circuit

Care Manual: Dreaming Care into Being

A theopoetic manual on care, transformation, and agency. The book defines care as the intentional and informed giving and receiving of abundance, transformation as cycle-breaking into harmonized beingness, Source as all of us together now. Written as a tool for the magic makers who care.

Published by Flower Press, a Detroit-based publishing practice centering womxn, femme, queer, trans, and non-binary artists, on Anishinaabe land.

8 × 8 inch, 70-page spiral-bound book. Flower Press, 2021.

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Previously.
2025

Music Gallery, Venus Fest
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
East End United Church

2023
Studio Museum in Harlem
The Question of Love and Community Care
Museums as Systems Panel

2022
Dia Chelsea
Care Manual
Experiential Learning Series

Wavelength Music with Moonriivr and Sam Tudor at St. Anne's Parish Hall, Toronto. 2025. Photographer Green Yang.

Based between Bethel, New York & Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Bio

Rootmouth (b. 1992, Minneapolis) is a body of work artist whose practice is cultural marooning. They meander fields of perception and practice honest withdrawal as protection.

Their work takes the form of singing and writing songs, initiating ears at dirt level, hosting fugitive space, and stewarding land that belongs to the people of the waters that are never still.

They work in biodynamic time, set to the rhythms of the moon. Their work moves through registers that filter, shape, and present from the root of things, organized by a self-made framework that channels through the gut, ground and sky, keeping their practice on alternate transits programmed to be disobedient to the dominant clock.