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“SOUL MANSION” is a performance piece made to elevate an aspen branch to the social hierarchical level of a human being. The abstract film positions attributes of the human body and soul alongside that of a tree, its bark formations, its movement, its branches, its leaves. Producer and performer Margaret Thompson applies her research of ancient Egyptian funerary practices in the documentation of a contemporary ritual for the preservation of this aspen branch, placing it within an adorned sarcophagus built by the artist (referred to as a SOUL MANSION) and then simulating its burial ceremony. The title of this piece does not only refer to the artist’s sarcophagus sculpture. The artist aims to extend the concept of soul mansion—a term found in the first page of The Papyrus of Ani from the Egyptian Book of the Dead—beyond her box to the realities we create for ourselves, our worlds built by our wonders, both physical and mental spaces where we are free, where we can be limitless.

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