Honoring Ancestral Memory in Pueblo, Colorado
‘Remembering’
Conceptualizing Pueblo's losses through a significant and reverberant sculpture site, ‘Remembering’ is a contemporary interactive anti-memorial, an invitation to commemorate experiences of ancestral memory.
This memorial seeks to honor and acknowledge the past while seeking to provide a carefully curated space for individual and collective healing.
WeMend
‘WeMend is a group gathering offering time and space to quieten and slow down – to commune, converse, repair and connect in this simple act of bringing hands together to sew fragments.’
Womanifesto, Thailand
Sound Blessing and EarthPrints for the WeMend Womanifesto project at the Big Ol’ Picnic in Memorial Park, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, in June 2024.
A recycled tablecloth with memories of gatherings was dyed indigo and cut into pieces in preparation for a community blessing/ ceremony using clay, clove oil, and acacia gum. Participants were led through a clearing ceremony; we sounded and sang together and then painted and printed our offerings onto the cloth fragments with intention.
We Mend, August 11, 2024, @ LevelUp Coworking and Creative space, Pueblo. We sewed together, adding fabric fragments to the earth-printed ones we had made while acknowledging our desire for harmony and community.
Our WeMend project will fly to Thailand to be integrated with offerings from around the world into an abstract shelter to be exhibited at the Sharjah Biennale in 2025.
