I earned a Microbiology degree from the University of Oklahoma and worked in the Oklahoma Water Survey Microbiology Research lab. It’s taking me longer than some others to understand my calling, and in trying to do so, I have completely changed directions and I am pursuing my true passion of being a creative. With the support of my loved ones, I know I can create a reality where my imagination and spirit to express does not go unnoticed. I can live in a world where my work brings me inspiration and joy even if the world is filled with uncertainty. To the little girl who made up stories in her head to pass the time, and whose favorite characters filled her thoughts, even when the majority of the time they looked nothing like her, I honor her passion now instead of pushing it to the side for “real life.” Life that is created with systems that have long been the reason for humanity’s shortcomings. Through art I wish to expose the illusion that is the need to suffer, the illusion that some are more important that others, and the illusion that anyone or anything is even truly “other.”
Following that creative inner child, I wish dedicate my life to creating, in whatever form comes my way, and with fellow artists determined to showcase the vulnerability it takes to be an expressive human. With my own experience as a colonized, learning decolonization, indigenous person, my greatest hope is to shine at least a little light on other disillusioned indigenous persons like myself who feel as if colonization did win in too many ways. The ones who for what seems like too long, didn’t even see the acts taken that stripped them of their own divinity. The ones who no longer want to conform to a world of competition and consumerism, but to create a world of peace and harmony within and outside themselves. I hope my little part to play in the stage that is the world can serve, even if just a small example, of hope for a more conscious humanity.
ODDITY AURA 