I will be showcasing ~•Breathing in Gaias Ocean•~ at Len Sol Studios’ }•—Art is for Healing—•{ exhibition on August 3rd from 2-7 pm🎍🍃💧🌊 if you feel called to her, she’d like to greet you and be greeted by you 🦚🐉🌬️🌦️🌩️
@tamate.uta & @seve_scape will be supporting a goddess activation ritual in which they will each play their womb healing instruments as I place offerings into my sculptures’ womb 🪷🍃🪘🧊📿
^this performance starts at 5:30. @jenn.ban will be activating her art afterwards 💧🪞💧
I will be selling prints of my black and white drawings alongside their display for an accessible sliding scale price {$5-$25}
~~~~••••free to attend with RSVP, $5 at the door••••~~~~
••••~~~~~~address provided once you RSVP~~~~~••••
Showing alongside kindred artists ~~•
amy glitter @glitterlittr
boba rosa ale.flamingo
breno aragon @aragonart
fathom @fathom_art
cairo mccockran @pullman_studios
grace jin @graceejin
jazmine kravitz @jazzi_velvett
jeannine la bate @jean9labate
jenn ban @jenn.ban
jiayue li @jiayuerrr
jun yang @junyarts
mike hazel @therichyoungrebel
nahyun kim @studio.nahyun
ruby jay @lycheelibrah
sabrine haroun @sabrinebrinee
tori hong @ntxoo.art
ximaps @ximaps
last summer in tracking my experience of madness and porosity I wrote,
I feel every immediate moment to be saturated, overflowing
a drenched archive of stories
a crossroads of relations converging from many temporal realities
a node that, if presenced, if pressed
all can come crashing in
like water droplets on a spiderweb
~~~
such gratitude for the spell of those words guiding me to potent and tender teachers @weaving_earth and @queernature
in the reverberations of a 10 day immersion with them this past march
i’m sitting with
to press and be pressed in return
to track and be traced
how do we build the capacity to meet and be met by this moment
to fully attend to the tapestory
how do we still enough to allow gravity to find us
so we may fall towards something
fall with something
be elongated in/by the heaviness
be longed
belong
as we stretch, distort the limits empire has told us are true in our bodies, my heart is beating with those who are leaning into the (coeur)age of porosity
those who are fumbling thru rituals in their rooms to hold a heart breaking in 40,000 different ways
those who have lost words and found tears in front of loved ones
those standing in front of walls of batons, badges, shields, letting thunder roar through their chests
i dance, i pray, i cry, i fumble with you
porous~ porus, an opening; poros, passage, way
may we fumble upon an opening, may we find our way here together
here in the wake of this sonic spellwork
in the endless Wake we are in that is bearing witness to genocide
in the trying to wake others
in the lessons of the Bakunawa
in screaming for 7 generations past and future
so loudly so as to shatter the glass of distraction, spell break the hypnosis that keeps those asleep
i learned that the keening women, known as the Bean Chaointe in Gaelic, were women who practiced Irish grief rites. during wakes the Keening Women would hold sacred container of grief for the community, to doula the transfer of the soul of the deceased into the realms of Otherworld, presided over by the Banshee.
drawing their power from the enchantress arts of poetry, incantation, sound alchemy and the mystical arts of song magic, the Keening was both instinctual and a highly trained artistic form, and created a ‘sound capsule’ that was able to sing the dead across the veils and release grief from the community.
prayers to releasing our inner Banshee, letting our ancestral cries be heard across the veil and reverberate thru all corners of this earth
❤️🔥🫀🍉❤️🔥🫀🍉
horrific times like these surface and deepen already existing differences/tensions between loved ones as conversations, conflicts, actions, silences, decisions reveal where people stand in the face of genocide
In this 2 hour virtual community space we’ll be grieving and processing the tensions we’ve been experiencing with fam and friends the last 2 months and co-strategizing possibilities around how to deeper engage our loved ones in Palestinian liberation
live captions and transcripts will be available
DM for zoom link and to share any access needs
december 10th
7-9pm pst
hello white bodied dear ones
a lil something something I’ve been munching on on the journey of reckoning with the legacies I’ve inherited through this body
wanted to share with you these feelings and a prayer, especially this week where many of us are gathering with loved ones on this haunted holiday
in the thick tension of unrepaired and unhealed legacies, may we practice something different and fumble through transformation
sending y’all much grounding energy and love 🦋🐌
