Against The Patriachy 2024 Series, Archival Ink Print. 13 x 19 each print.
@_indio__ | Cultivating environments has been a beautiful practice as a steward who belongs to land. It is my time with land that has brought me to this understanding of love that extends beyond “Human” wisdom. First, I have to thank my mother for enveloping my early childhood as an Undocumented child in the U.S with love and for bringing with her the seeds she brought with her when she crossed the border. Seeds that carried Indigenous philosophies I needed to protect me from the Patriarchy. With the placement of her love, she planted these seeds in my heart and mind, giving me the ability to accept the love of the land I later began to seek.
The manner in which the patriarchy gains power is through violence and the domination of the land and its people. By building relationships with land, people are able to break the hold the patriarchy has on our bodies and minds. This relationship with land can all give us the power to heal our traumas imposed on us by the Patriarchy through community, medicine/food, ceremony work. In My first project, Black And Indigenous Futures, established that true liberation and control of our futures is only through the liberation of the land, but that as a collective we must address the trauma that has come from being separated from land while preparering to protect and fight for the land that our bodies, minds, and relationships are tethered to it, thus, “The Future of Black And Indigenous people is one of healing through the land” not just for us but also the next generation.
This photo project depicts people building relationships with land, working the soil with their hands, and harvesting food to heal and sustain people. But Most of all learning what love is through the land. So much of our separation from land has caused us to lack love in ourselves. This speaks in the way we treat the land, femme bodies and those who are able to love themselves. “Against the Patriarchy”, reveals forms in which land is the anti-power of the Patriarchy. Applying the power of the land to heal the men around me.
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Exhibition Artists | Giovanna Aguirre-Peresson • Noa Alemán • Lex Applewhite • Danielle Arend • Bria Bridges • Luis Carrasco • Katie Cercone • San Chen • Juana Duran Charicata • Jason Guzman • Insidious Studios • Akira Iyashikei • Tai Kojro-Badziak • Kevin C. Lawler • Sara Laureano • Sunshine Lombre • Catherine (Yiwen) Lyu • Lisa Mannion • Victor Manuel Manzo Meneses • Dani Massey • Cara Mastanduno • Toni Maugeri • Mark Nelson • Earica Parrish • Gabriel Patti • Luna Rail • Maria Requenia • Amiya Ross • Evelyn Rubi Hernandez • Kaltra Seferi • Zelda Jane Thorn • Hope Wood • Araceli Zuniga