Photo by Matthew Placek

Vanessa Walters, ripening founder and creative directoR

PHOTO BY MATTEW PLACEK

Ripening is an ongoing canon of work exploring our emotional and psychological relationship with time, and the wonder and cruelty it wreaks. Through film, live performance, and immersive installation, each incarnation traverses themes of aging and beauty, vanity and femininity, fantasy and nightmare.

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Vanessa walters & brian gonzalez, creative directors for ripening film and video incarnations

Since 2012, choreographer Vanessa Walters and filmmaker Brian Gonzalez (aka taxiplasm) have been continuously mining ever more deeply into the ripening world.