𐓰𐓪𐓰𐓘 𐓤𐓪𐓰𐓘

Emma McCormick Goodhart is an artist, writer, researcher, and dramaturge who experiments with deep-time histories of the senses, especially in sound and scent. Connected to stone-based scenography is a double-sided neon sign written in Osage for “proximity” (𐓰𐓪𐓰𐓘) and “distance” (𐓤𐓪𐓰𐓘): respectively, “that, those, over here, on this (closer) side” and “that, those, over there, on the other (farther) side.”

Together, neon and rock suggest wayfinding as a sensory practice. One is read at a distance; the other through touch.

The words come from the artist’s dialogue with Osage language scholar Braxton Redeagle.