what is slo intent?

 

 

it’s the difference between time felt and time just passing you by…

slo intent is an art project, channeled by cat dorvilus, that uses vulnerability + healing as its mediums.

why vulnerability?

vulnerability is the necessary catalyst to bring about continued growth + healing.

slo intent is a collection of works and curated spaces that asks of its audience to slow down and feel, while emphasizing the importance of prioritizing connecting to self, community, earth + spirit. it looks to support in awakening, empowering, and assisting people in intuitively realizing they are their greatest healer.

slo intent is a response to the effects of: oppressive systems rooted in division, the commodification/destruction of earth and the severance of our umbilical connection to earth by colonization and the aforementioned. it is a way of being that aligns our nature back with that of the earth’s, and takes into account, holistically, that we are matter animated by spirit.

slo intent is rooted in continued alignment with the earth/spirit as well as honoring cultural + ancestral practices of those that came before us.

slo intent is an answered call to help in the healing of the wounds of the earth/spirit  + to help restore emotion, compassion, and vulnerability to humanity. cat invites herself, as well as her audience to the freedom that awaits them when they acquiesce + open themselves up to spending time in nature, with community, in ritual, practicing equanimity + slowing down.

welcome to slo intent.

for more details or to collaborate please message.

who?

 

photo: Franck Henry

 

cat dorvilus is a queer multi-disciplinary artist, curator, community organizer, creative entrepreneur, world-builder, and dialogic facilitator, working primarily with vulnerability + holistic healing as her mediums, using video, drawing, writing, creating content, and curating space as both her tools + canvas. her mission is to offer art and space that foster and continue self-healing and empowerment in others. weaving her love of nature, folklore, myth, culture, and the esoteric to her abstractions, she invites her audience to the freedom that awaits them if they acquiesce to vulnerability. 

 

born and raised in Miami, FL to two immigrant parents from Haiti, at the age of 22, she left home shortly after dropping out of college, and instead made nature her teacher. traveling for 5 years with a backpack and a tent, through much of the continental United States, she was able to find lessons in the redwood forest of northern California, the north island of New Zealand, The Big Island of Hawaii, and the beaches of San Diego, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Trinidad. working at various music festivals and with Cirque du Soleil along the way to fund her travels, she was also able to face and heal the trauma that she was running away from. 

 

she settled down in New Orleans in 2017, where she began pouring the contents of herself and all she had learned while on her travels. while there, she created naked, an experimental open mic night, Nutrients of the Earth, an eco-friendly holistic wellness brand and farm-to-table food pop-up, wrote a poetry chapbook titled, wholy be my name, created wolf circle, a sister circle for divine feminine to be wild + honored in collective, kwè, a documentary series that honors the brilliance around her, and participated in and assisted in the facilitation of community forums.

 

in June 2021, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides. Her time there is spent on reclaiming her Haitian/African/Indigenous spiritual and cultural practices, through myth, folklore, language, herbalism + working in communion with the land.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT: “the beauty and the limitation of words is just how little you can truly convey using them. i think, anyway, language is perhaps but a microcosmic vehicle to aid us towards finding our way to those whom we need no language for – those with a vibrational frequency that has been in harmony to ours for a millennia. i imagine that maybe that’s the point of life — a gigantic cosmic game of hide n’ seek with your soul’s complements, over and over and over again til you re-member. til you rejoin. til you become one once more. i find a lot of solace in being called to create, curate, and bring people together so that they can find their harmony, whatever it may be.”