House Rat Oracle Readings and Lecture with Jai Knight

House Rat is an Oracle Deck of 45 cards grounded in the home, land stewardship, connection, and collaboration. Using 45 original drawings channelled in one night, Jai has created space for over a hundred people to reflect and find deeper meaning within the otherwise mundane household objects, infusing this deck with revolutionary insight since 2020. This deck is shared with a diverse range of people within galleries, apothecaries, art installations, parks, near rivers, at family gatherings, sacred spaces, and through zoom. The symbols within the deck reference changes within the earth, as well as the systems that bring us back to living in reciprocity with earth and spirit. Jai offers intimate experiences to reflect on three chosen cards from the House Rat Deck. Readings will be offered from 5-6:00 pm. House Rat Lecture Space shares how these cards came to be, weaving stories of magick, learning, and suggested ritual processes of reclaiming our connection to earth. Jai will share the inception story of the deck, where these cards have traveled, and the process of how these cards were reproduced by hand using woodcarving, wildfire charcoal and local waste. Lecture will be hosted from 7-8:00 pm. After three years of journeying with the House Rat Deck, Jai is traveling through Portland on their way to Bellingham, where the first edition of books will be printed! Jai is a non-binary interdisciplinary artist currently living in SW USA. Their work investigates trauma and resilience as it is related to the body and the earth. Jai's life work includes large-scale site-specific installation, natural pigment paintings, woodblock printing, paper-making, weaving, performance, sound and video projection. Social engagement is a key factor in Jai's projects, where they offer workshops and oracle experiences to people of all ages. Jai has created landart in Quillota (Chile), Parque Nacional Yendegaia(Chile), Johnson Valley (CA, USA), and more spaces within Southern, CA where they integrate regenerative practices informed by research and observations of the land itself. Jai received their BFA in painting at Daemen College (NY,2015), studied land stewardship throughout Chile (2016-17), became an activist in Patagonia Chile (2017), Received a 3 month mentorship with Cata Calores at Ecoescuela Vivencial in the lower Atacama Desert, Studied wildcrafting in Oregon (2018), studied radical buddhist meditation (Dhamma Dena, Joshua Tree, CA 2019), Received their certification in Regenerative agriculture and Advanced social systems design with the Women's Permaculture Guild specializing in Arid Climate adaptation with mentorship from Meiling Colorado (2020), and works occasionally with Linda Sibio learning about interdisciplinary art and mental illness (2020-current). Jai has been an artist in Residence at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA (2022) and at UTE AIR in Sunshine Valley, NM (2021-2022). Jai is currently working on printing The House Rat Oracle, which is a 45 card deck of symbolic cards including household objects, tools for land stewardship, creatures, and plants. All cards are printed on 100% recycled handmade paper, ink made from charred wood, and woodblocks carved from burch. Jai is currently most interested in creating intimate space for introspection through collaborative readings, performance, and hand-poke tattoo.

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