THE CANOPY – Site Specific Installation
When I created The Canopy I wanted to make a space that holds both grief and resilience. This work emerges from my reflections on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
At the center of The Canopy stand two ceramic Tree of Life sculptures signifying survival, memory, and the sacred power of women as life-givers and knowledge-keepers.
Surrounding this central element are red-tinted prints of California missions and layered collages—fragments that recall the atrocities of colonization while also pointing to survival and endurance.
Sustainers of Life
Co-curated by Cecelia Caro and Laurie Steelink, the exhibition addresses colonialism's impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis while also celebrating individual stories of resilience and survival.
The exhibition features contemporary Native and Indigenous women artists Weshoyot Alvitre, Emily Clarke, Katie Dorame, Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Cara Romero, Corey Stein, and Linda Vallejo.
Angel's Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Oct 9, 2025 - January 31, 2026
As an artist, I am interested in how these fragments of history and media manipulation shape collective consciousness. By recomposing them by layering of images and striking out text, I expose their hidden hierarchies and moral dissonance. The resulting collage becomes an altar of contradiction—a place where sacred imagery confronts its own institutional corruption, where media, the beautiful and the grotesque share the same visual space.
In “Censored: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,”, I aim to make visible the psychic residue of our media-saturated world. The collage is not just commentary—it is confrontation, reconciliation, and ritual. It asks how we might reclaim meaning and create poignant imagery amid the noise, and whether comprehension and realization is still possible through the very materials that distort our perception of truth.
IMAGE: Censored: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, 2006,
repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
23.5 x 15 in.
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
