1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,417 (soft music) 2 00:00:06,848 --> 00:00:10,015 (soft ethereal music) 3 00:00:12,958 --> 00:00:16,200 - You know when you have dreams that you're in a house, 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,363 it's often the parts of your psyche. 5 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:23,430 And the different rooms are different places 6 00:00:23,430 --> 00:00:25,507 in your mind and your spirit. 7 00:00:25,507 --> 00:00:28,613 (soft ethereal music) 8 00:00:28,613 --> 00:00:33,150 A reoccurring place that represents the parts of ourselves 9 00:00:33,150 --> 00:00:35,643 or different times of our lives. 10 00:00:35,643 --> 00:00:39,570 (soft ethereal music) 11 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:42,690 As we come to the rooms in this exhibit, 12 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:44,910 your shadow is cast on the wall, 13 00:00:44,910 --> 00:00:47,790 and we begin with the awareness of our bodies 14 00:00:47,790 --> 00:00:49,800 and our impact in that space. 15 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,967 (soft ethereal music) 16 00:00:59,220 --> 00:01:01,906 I would ask people to enter into the space 17 00:01:01,906 --> 00:01:04,120 with the kind of reverence that we would enter 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,045 into our own psychological spaces, 19 00:01:07,045 --> 00:01:10,563 that we would navigate our own internal spaces. 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,831 Even if that sensitivity 21 00:01:13,831 --> 00:01:17,561 isn't a comfortable neural pathway, 22 00:01:17,561 --> 00:01:18,665 we can build one. 23 00:01:18,665 --> 00:01:20,091 This is how we start. 24 00:01:20,091 --> 00:01:23,258 (soft ethereal music) 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:38,393 Cool. 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,590 Yes. 27 00:01:40,590 --> 00:01:43,410 Start with a little dash of orange. 28 00:01:43,410 --> 00:01:47,070 I didn't know about the Fabric Workshop before. 29 00:01:47,070 --> 00:01:49,492 I was familiar with some of their past projects, 30 00:01:49,492 --> 00:01:51,730 but I didn't know the whole scope of this place. 31 00:01:51,730 --> 00:01:53,650 I'm just gonna keep going. - Keep going. 32 00:01:53,650 --> 00:01:56,244 - Just give a shape and I'll make it. - That's perfect. 33 00:01:56,244 --> 00:01:58,800 - They were just inviting me to play, right? 34 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,936 They were like, what in your practice do you feel 35 00:02:01,936 --> 00:02:04,443 you don't really get to do as much? 36 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:07,170 Coming from Santa Clara, 37 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:09,600 I've only sort of played around with fabric 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,863 for ceremonial stuff. 39 00:02:12,150 --> 00:02:13,770 You can't participate 40 00:02:13,770 --> 00:02:16,200 or have what you're supposed to wear for ceremony 41 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:17,970 unless you make it yourself, 42 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:20,943 and so most people in the tribe know how to sew. 43 00:02:22,950 --> 00:02:25,473 Oh, dope, I like that one a lot. 44 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:27,750 Ah! 45 00:02:27,750 --> 00:02:29,627 Okay, is it okay if I chop 'em? 46 00:02:29,627 --> 00:02:30,810 - Yeah, chop them. 47 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:33,093 - This is like the funnest ever. 48 00:02:33,930 --> 00:02:36,153 This is like Rose's bliss. 49 00:02:37,947 --> 00:02:40,260 (soft ethereal music) 50 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:44,490 This show, it's like sifting through your world 51 00:02:44,490 --> 00:02:47,133 to find what is delicious and what isn't. 52 00:02:48,450 --> 00:02:51,450 I wanna just shake it and all the other stuff come out 53 00:02:51,450 --> 00:02:53,120 and only the good stuff left. 54 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,887 (soft ethereal music) (machine whirring) 55 00:03:04,830 --> 00:03:06,697 All right. What have we here? 56 00:03:08,173 --> 00:03:11,340 (soft ethereal music) 57 00:03:21,030 --> 00:03:24,056 So cool how it hardens up. 58 00:03:24,056 --> 00:03:25,170 This is perfect. 59 00:03:25,170 --> 00:03:27,284 I couldn't imagine a better morning. 60 00:03:27,284 --> 00:03:30,451 (soft ethereal music) 61 00:03:33,210 --> 00:03:36,270 I've invested so much outside of myself, 62 00:03:36,270 --> 00:03:40,113 like I'm very much, I think, giving my energy away. 63 00:03:41,670 --> 00:03:45,150 This is a prayer that my life changes 64 00:03:45,150 --> 00:03:49,290 and that I can make space for the things I value for myself, 65 00:03:49,290 --> 00:03:51,810 and those aesthetics that I value 66 00:03:51,810 --> 00:03:53,920 are not just going out there in the world, 67 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,000 that they're coming back to me and to my lived spaces. 68 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,557 (soft ethereal music) 69 00:04:00,557 --> 00:04:02,760 I woke up from a dream this morning 70 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,420 that my clay had seeds in it. 71 00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:10,320 - [Producer] Was that a scary dream? 72 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:11,510 - No, it was like... 73 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,980 I don't know, the metaphor is interesting. 74 00:04:20,104 --> 00:04:22,860 I really like listening to my dreams. 75 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:26,662 Lots and lots of journeys, like walking this path 76 00:04:26,662 --> 00:04:29,722 that's like a familiar place. 77 00:04:29,722 --> 00:04:32,889 (soft ethereal music) 78 00:04:36,830 --> 00:04:39,270 When I travel, the first thing I think is, 79 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:41,580 geez, I wonder what this place looked like 80 00:04:41,580 --> 00:04:46,580 before it was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 81 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:49,110 Like, who were the indigenous people? 82 00:04:49,110 --> 00:04:51,712 What did the land feel like 83 00:04:51,712 --> 00:04:55,650 and what were the languages spoken and how did that sound? 84 00:04:55,650 --> 00:04:56,760 I always think that, 85 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,293 and you can fall into a really deep sadness. 86 00:05:04,491 --> 00:05:07,893 And I can hold space for that and be like, yes, I'm sad, 87 00:05:08,970 --> 00:05:12,370 and I'm always really sad and it's always really complicated 88 00:05:13,890 --> 00:05:15,483 and it's like, yeah, and. 89 00:05:16,410 --> 00:05:19,740 It hurts, and it's also now in the present 90 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:22,914 and we can find incredibly beautiful things. 91 00:05:22,914 --> 00:05:26,081 (soft ethereal music) 92 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:31,825 We give baskets with gifts in the community. 93 00:05:31,825 --> 00:05:34,620 Like if you do something nice for somebody, you get baskets 94 00:05:34,620 --> 00:05:37,128 and then you'll hang it up in your house, 95 00:05:37,128 --> 00:05:39,990 and then if you need to gift, then you have baskets. 96 00:05:39,990 --> 00:05:42,951 So it keeps getting kind of moved around. 97 00:05:42,951 --> 00:05:46,822 (soft ethereal music) 98 00:05:46,822 --> 00:05:49,500 Some elders will have their whole ceiling 99 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:51,241 just covered in baskets. 100 00:05:51,241 --> 00:05:54,408 (soft ethereal music) 101 00:05:55,710 --> 00:05:58,890 Your worth is based on how much you can give 102 00:05:58,890 --> 00:06:01,340 and how you're recognized for the gifts you give. 103 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,249 We remove our shoes and we can sit with each other. 104 00:06:07,249 --> 00:06:12,177 And above us are paper bowls that have stars in them 105 00:06:12,177 --> 00:06:14,759 that create the ceiling of guidance. 106 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:19,020 And then below us are pillows that have stars on them. 107 00:06:19,020 --> 00:06:23,100 And so we're like... the comfort of guidance is holding us 108 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:25,381 to give us a place to connect. 109 00:06:25,381 --> 00:06:28,548 (soft ethereal music) 110 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:39,870 The layers of the rooms in this exhibit 111 00:06:39,870 --> 00:06:44,870 are very much about boundaries and how much I share 112 00:06:44,870 --> 00:06:46,645 and how much I don't share. 113 00:06:46,645 --> 00:06:51,645 (soft ethereal music) 114 00:06:55,278 --> 00:06:57,932 I wanted people to see what the walls were made out of, 115 00:06:57,932 --> 00:07:01,290 which also provides an incredible opportunity 116 00:07:01,290 --> 00:07:04,015 to feel like you're in between the walls. 117 00:07:04,961 --> 00:07:08,343 And it is like entering into layers of the subconscious. 118 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,210 Then there was this deeper space 119 00:07:12,210 --> 00:07:14,523 that you can only see a section of. 120 00:07:15,990 --> 00:07:18,911 And there's actually parts of the room no one will ever see. 121 00:07:18,911 --> 00:07:21,668 (soft ethereal music) 122 00:07:30,861 --> 00:07:35,520 My work is so much about giving back self 123 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,048 or consciousness to things that we have deemed lifeless. 124 00:07:40,048 --> 00:07:43,555 (soft ethereal music) 125 00:07:43,555 --> 00:07:46,950 There are three masks in the work room 126 00:07:46,950 --> 00:07:48,350 and in that sort of pressure, 127 00:07:48,350 --> 00:07:50,820 you're sitting in the hot seat, you're being watched 128 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:55,020 by more than we would ever know, and that's supportive. 129 00:07:55,020 --> 00:07:59,520 It's also probably a little bit critical at times, right? 130 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,680 But how do you act when you know you have 131 00:08:03,690 --> 00:08:07,083 this community that's larger than what we perceive? 132 00:08:08,915 --> 00:08:10,980 We're on this grind, right? 133 00:08:10,980 --> 00:08:13,032 And it goes and goes and goes. 134 00:08:13,032 --> 00:08:16,199 (soft ethereal music) 135 00:08:20,070 --> 00:08:21,720 It's not necessarily a bad thing, 136 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,990 it's actually the deliciousness of life, right? 137 00:08:24,990 --> 00:08:25,823 This is it. 138 00:08:28,942 --> 00:08:30,600 I wouldn't be doing this work 139 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,371 if it wasn't the thing that I needed to learn the most. 140 00:08:33,371 --> 00:08:35,542 (soft ethereal music) 141 00:08:35,542 --> 00:08:38,410 And so everything that I do like this 142 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,292 hopefully is tipping the scale. 143 00:08:42,292 --> 00:08:46,290 Every rock on this side where my life becomes more conscious 144 00:08:46,290 --> 00:08:50,455 and more intentional and more prayerful. 145 00:08:50,455 --> 00:08:52,260 (soft ethereal music) 146 00:08:52,260 --> 00:08:53,103 It's my goal. 147 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,617 It's my dream. 148 00:08:55,617 --> 00:08:58,384 (soft ethereal music)