Malcolm Peacock. Five of them were hers and she carved shelters with windows into the backs of their skulls. 2025. Installation. Braided synthetic hair, prints, audio. 8x8 ft.

Peacock’s installation centers around a massive tree-trunk constructed from various colors and types of braided synthetic hair and adorned with printed passages from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and A Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). The 8 ft tall and wide trunk visually echoes Peacock’s memory of training as a long distance runner among the Pacific Northwest ancient redwoods. Beyond the sports’ known measurables of speed and distance, diegetic recordings of the artist running through different environments that emanate from the trunk further explore running’s capacity for reclaiming agency in fraught public landscapes. Breath serves as a constant metronome in the recordings; a charting of endurance and interconnectedess with place.