Unfolding

I'm excited to be a part of Water Fire Arts Center exhibit, America Unfinished? I'll be performing Thrusday, July 30th at (7:30 pm)

Update:

Thank you to everyone who came to experience and participate in this performance. Your words, drawings, memories, and stories transformed the butcher paper into a collective archive of migration, connection, and belonging.

I chose butcher paper intentionally, because for generations immigrants have worked in the food industry. People from all over the world have built community, and sustained their families working in carnicerías, delis, butcher shops, bodegas among many places. It became both a canvas for storytelling and a material carrying its own history of labor, migration, and survival.

This interactive piece invited participants to reflect on personal history, memories, traditions, or hopes, and the journeys that brought them here. As each person added their mark, a new story started to emerge. Participants responded to others, and connected stories across the paper, the work grew into a living record of shared and intersecting experiences.

I began with a series of poems and storytelling written directly onto the paper and concluded and then we transitioned into creating a collective piece.

If you want to contribute to this piece, go check out the America Unfinished? Exhibit at the WaterFire Arts Center, it will be on display and you can add to it.