Syon Davis

As much of their work focuses on reclaiming their identity as a natural being, Syon is largely inspired by biomimicry – they experience plants, animals (including humans), arthropods, and fungi as mirrors and opportunities for reflection. Syon's oeuvre is made up of artifacts from their decolonization process – an intentional practice of shifting away from anti-black, patriarchal, cis-heteronormative, and human-supremacist ways of being and moving towards behaviors and patterns rooted in pleasure, balance, acceptance, relationship, and reciprocity. Syon is a neurodivergent artist for which sticking with any one medium sounds tedious and impossible. In their current iteration, they are exploring the aforementioned ideas through film, movement, collage, textiles, & the written word and at the intersections of those things. Syon is excited by the infinite nature of life and intends on spending their time on earth exploring the infinity within themselves and others. Syon was raised in Pomona, California and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.