My education includes graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Microbiology. I spent my time in a Bio-Safety level 2 lab, extracting DNA in a fume hood (super cool til you find out the sample was wastewater). It took me longer than some, quicker than others to understand my calling, and in trying to do so, I have completely changed directions and am pursuing my true passion of being an artist. 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, who turned inward to express outwardly on page, and who always needed a journal that no one is allowed to read. I honor her passion to create because we have the power to choose what brings meaning to our life. While “real life” has been 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.”
My inspiration for creating
With my own experience as a colonized person learning decolonization, indigenous person, my greatest hope is to shine at least a little light on other disillusioned indigenous persons like myself. Those 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.
Undo Patriarchy, Practice Matriarchy, Decenter Industrialization, Protect the Earth