Description

My work navigates the impacts of the body politic on living bodies, land, and culture. I work to contribute to an ending of violent tongues, knives and pens that cut apart land, culture, sex, and life. I work to expose oppressive ear and violence rooted in separation. My work celebrates the connection of land, water, and everything that depends on it. I weave, sew, cast, draw, sculpt, and perform tools for surviving current conditions and envisioning regenerative, intersectional, connected ways of being. The mixed materials and processes I create embody my mixed heritage; advocating for allegiance to land, water, and marginalized bodies in the face of continued state of violence and oppression. My works are containers for story, feeling, thought; images of what cannot be seen, and exercises for existence.  "Learn to recognize when water is unsafe. Water is unsafe when it contains crude oil, refined petrochemicals, heavy metals, chemical fertilizer, chemical insecticides or any combination of organic or inorganic compounds that prevent water from supporting itself and everything that depends on it through the continuous processes of hydration, incubation, filtration, erosion, and evaporation. Unsafe water may exhibit signs of distress including but not limited to: color changes, thick or oily surface film, bad smells, bad taste, flammability, itchiness, burning sensations upon contact, animal death, plant death. Water safety exercises may not fully prevent or avert health complications from unsafe water, including but not limited to itchy skin, watery eyes, organ failure, reproductive complication, certain types of cancer, plant die off, animal die off, and weather pattern distortion. The best way to keep water safe is through protection from crude oil, refined petrochemicals, heavy metals, chemical fertilizer, chemical insecticides or any combination of organic or inorganic compounds that prevent water from supporting itself and everything that depends on it. No Dakota Access Pipeline. Support Standing Rock."