Welcome.
This work is a home for me, a sanctuary where I find hope and solace in the people, places and partnerships I am apart of.
In my experience, the work to build or restore culture is formed and informed first and foremost by connection to place. In a world of migration where many have been severed from their indigenous places, my work as a record keeper is in service to reconnecting to the generative narratives that help us to human well.
Through acts of art, activism and community building, may this work serve the preservation of memory, lineage and inheritances that need to be known.
MY PHILOSOPHY
My work of record-keeping has served the generative narratives that reweave human beings in connection to themselves, place and each other.
This exists on the intimate level of family — working as a witness to the love, connection and preciousness of these foundational bonds- the first place where culture and memory are created.
It exists on the collective level to chronicle the gatherings, movements, and initiatives that work toward providing antidotes to the dominant overculture.
The perspectives I hold are informed by many teachers and ancestors, through literature and documentaries, and the rich lived experiences and travels that have expanded my soul.
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PROJECTS
Short & Mixed Media Films
Walking water
mixed media film
Walking Water is an invitation, an action, an educational journey and a prayer intended to bring together the voices of the many Peoples of the Eastern Sierra and Los Angeles watersheds through the act of walking together – through a pilgrimage that follows the waterways — natural and manmade — between Mono Lake and Los Angeles.
It includes the way of circle — the practice of deep listening and speaking that contributes to community building, the sharing of old and new stories, the healing of differences and conflict.
