“On Separation” Featured Artist
“My practice is rooted in the veneration of narratives as the truest markers of ancestry and lineage.”
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ReadIn Excessed
“I was the first cigarette, untouched out of a new pack, she inhaled me” -
ReadThe Architects of Almost
“I’ve done some rash, impulsive shit in the name of love—built monuments to things that didn’t last. I mapped out futures for people who never asked for permanence.” -
ReadThe art of losing & other poems
“Lose something every day — drop coins / from the hole in your pocket, go hungry / at school.” -
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PACIFIC HOMING
“老家 are the characters: old and home. Which is better translated as one’s ‘ancestral home.’ The 老家 is the place and community where your lineage can be traced.” -
ReadSabíduria: A wisdom, an (Indigenous) Knowing
“These words, herbs, and visions accompanied me through a monthlong spiritual ceremony of separation.” -
ReadOde to Mother & other poems
“I have hunted for Mother / Howled at Mother Moon / Pricked my healing with Mother Cactus / Touched my pleasure parts, the Mother Wound” -
ReadWhere We Begin & other poems
“to stay together means not to begin living / to begin living is a separation” -
ReadInside “On Separation”
“The writers’ stories stretch across continents and root themselves within the most intimate moments of severance.”