2026 Performance Lending Library: GUTSOIL ARTS | Pramila Vasudevan

 
 
 

Mossing | Marrowing

Mossing | Marrowing is a pair of audio vitality scores that invite participants to spend time with plants, their bodies, and the places they inhabit. Through movement, attention, breath, touch, and listening, the scores offer simple invitations to notice how relationships with plants shape the ways we move, sense, and become. The work grew from years of spending time with plants in gardens, forests, and greenhouses in the Twin Cities and is offered as an invitation to cultivate relationships with the places and living beings already around us. The recordings were made outdoors, in the company of wind, birds, insects, and other beings. Their voices are part of the score.


AUDIO RECORDINGS
Choose one or do both, in any order

Arriving (2:29)

  • An introduction to the vitality scores.

ARRIVING
Pramila Vasudevan

Marrowing (6:52)

  • An invitation to notice how the living world becomes part of us through breath, vibration, memory, and nourishment.

MARROWING
Pramila Vasudevan

Mossing (6:52)

  • A quiet encounter with a single plant through movement, attention, and changing perspective.

MOSSING
Pramila Vasudevan

TRANSCRIPTS:

Arriving:

Places are already full of relationships.

Today,

we are joining them.

Take a moment

to notice the plants,

the air,

and the other beings

already here.

(10 seconds)

I'm Pramila.

Thank you for being here.

Over the past several years,

I've spent a great deal of time with plants—

in gardens,

forests,

and tending a greenhouse

where I live in the Twin Cities.

Over time,

I noticed that the places I returned to

were changing the way I moved through the world.

I found myself staying a little longer.

Returning to the same plants.

Being drawn toward certain places

without always knowing why.

These walks gradually became a practice.

I call this practice

Mossing | Marrowing.

I created two vitality scores.

They are invitations

to spend time with plants,

our bodies,

and the places we move through.

I invite you to bring your curiosity.

Move in whatever way

feels available to you.

Bring your own way

of being with plants.

Throughout these scores

you'll hear moments of silence.

If you'd like more time

with a plant or a place,

you're welcome to pause the recording

and begin again whenever you're ready.

You may begin

with either score.

Mossing is a quiet encounter with a single plant 

through movement, attention, and changing perspective.

Marrowing is an invitation to notice how the living world 

becomes part of us through breath, vibration, memory, 

and nourishment.

Choose the one that draws your attention.

I’ll meet you there.

Mossing:

I invite you

to begin moving through this place

in whatever way

feels available to you today.Allow your attention

to lead you.

You may pass many plants

before one

asks you to pause.

When one does,

come a little closer.

Or change your relationship

with the plant

in whatever way

feels right.

(20 seconds)

Notice the distance

between you

and the plant.

Allow your body

to find its own distance.

(20–30 seconds)

Let your breathing

settle into its own rhythm.

Notice the air moving

between you

and the plant.

(20–30 seconds)Stay a little longer

than you normally would.

I've found

that when I stay,

more of a place

begins to reveal itself.

I wonder

what might reveal itself

to you.

(30–40 seconds)

If it feels appropriate,

allow one part

of your body

to meet the plant.

An elbow.

Your nose.

Your big toe.

Or simply remain

with the air between you.

(20–30 seconds)

Plants are places

where life gathers.

Look again.

Who or what else

is here?

Stay with something

you didn't notice

at first.

(30 seconds)

Stay with one place

where this plant

has changed.

If it feels right,

change your position.

Notice what changes

when your perspective

changes.

(30–40 seconds)

Notice

what is supporting

this plant.

Then notice

what is supporting you.

(20–30 seconds)

When you're ready,

continue.

Notice what draws your attention next.

Marrowing:

Find a place

where you'd like

to stay.

Take a moment

to notice

what your body

is already doing.

(20 seconds)

Let your breathing

settle into its own rhythm.

Notice the air

moving through you.

(20–30 seconds)

Some plants

become part of us.

Air.

Water.

Countless living beings

we rarely notice.

(20–30 seconds)Think of one plant

that has become

part of you.

Don't think

of its name.

Notice what your body

remembers first.

A taste.

A smell.

Warmth.

Coolness.

Or something

entirely your own.

(30 seconds)

If it feels right,

allow yourself

to make

a quiet hum.

I often find

that humming

helps me listen.

Not only

with my ears,

but through my body.

Follow the vibration.

Does it gather

in your tongue?

Your jaw?

The bones

of your head?

Does it return

to your throat?

Or travel

somewhere else?

(30 seconds)

If it feels appropriate,

allow one part

of your body

to meet

a nearby plant.

Continue humming,

or simply remain

with the vibration.

Notice

what changes.

(30–40 seconds)

I've come to understand that we are made

from things

that were once

outside of us.

Plants.

Water.

Air.

Countless living beings.

(30–40 seconds)

Stay with this

for a little longer.

(30–40 seconds)

When you're ready,

continue.

Notice

what moves

with you.