"rewriting the land, rewriting the soul" speaks about the artist's six year journey researching regenerative practices on land stewardship and the impact it has made on her healing process.  Special acknowledgments to Causability Creator Grant for funding natural pigment workshops and research, Hub of Prosperity for their Beginner Farmer Fellowship mentorship.  The following spaces also provided resources and support: Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Ragdale and Lazuli Residency. ​Read more about rewriting the land, rewriting the soul.

home & refuge symbolizes the connection between two spaces migratory beings occupy, a place of origin and one of safety.  A red light illuminates a portrait of my mother and myself along with an unhatched egg.  On the other end, a purple light sits on top of books that have provided me a stable upbringing.  Close by, the soil has been removed and inside seeds hold a sagebrush paper with a drawing of two birds becoming one.  Read more about home and refuge.

Soil manifesting observes the soil from various sites around my living laboratory as part of the long-term project of regenerating the land with native plants in the Rio Grande Valley region.  In this soil testing, the small terrariums mirror the landscape of South Texas with chemical reactions creating an ever-changing soil. Read more about soil testing.

walk with clouds speaks about the policing of migration and the erasure of the protective thorny forests in South Texas.  As part of my collective experience as an immigrant, I walk the landscape at night through the recently cut mesquite trees where my shoes gather remnants of the landscape.  Pressed on one shoe, a feather from a mockingbird, and on the other, a lock of hair as relics from beings that have died on the land.  On the surface of a mesquite wood block, phrases prompting movement in six possible directional movements can be held and turned at chance.  Read more about ​walk with clouds.

flower song is a time-based installation at the Chandler studio at Ragdale Residency as part of my research on indigenous knowledge and relationship with native plants.  My drawings were made with mesquite charcoal watercolor and radish ink from the Ragdale garden.  Read more about flower song.