Interactive land installation with audio component of earth poetry. The public listens to the Earth, ancestors, and poetry while seated on sculpted found objects layered with traditional adobe and turmeric patina. Earth

honoring ancestral wisdom and the nurturing, fertile qualities of rivers, performed beside the Rio Grande as a reverent meditation on water’s life-giving force and our interconnectedness with the living world. A tribute to the Mothers, celebrating their nurturing power.

A 15 by 7.2-foot earth altar, aligned with cardinal directions and elements, featured river mud, fire, a copper bowl of Rio Grande water, and communal chanting, harmonizing feminine and masculine forms under the full moon and lunar eclipse.

An Earth installation crafted from adobe, water, fire, and river rock, situated alongside the Rio Pueblo, honors the river, our ancestral heritage, and the elemental beings of the land. included communal singing and performance.

This work merges photography, sculpture, and installation, transforming found objects and images into symbols of renewal and possibility while drawing on African animistic religions and oral histories, with a poetic narrative featured as an audio component.

This project explores displacement and cultural heritage through photography and found objects, using material disintegration as metaphors for memory, the human condition, and the legacy of racism in South Africa, with maize symbolizing colonization.