WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.410 (soft music) 00:00:06.844 --> 00:00:10.014 (soft ethereal music) 00:00:12.946 --> 00:00:16.196 - You know when you have dreams that you're in a house, 00:00:16.196 --> 00:00:18.356 it's often the parts of your psyche. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the different rooms are different places 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in your mind and your spirit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A reoccurring place that represents the parts of ourselves 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or different times of our lives. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As we come to the rooms in this exhibit, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your shadow is cast on the wall, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we begin with the awareness of our bodies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and our impact in that space. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I would ask people to enter into the space 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the kind of reverence that we would enter 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into our own psychological spaces, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that we would navigate our own internal spaces. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Even if that sensitivity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 isn't a comfortable neural pathway, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we can build one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is how we start. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Start with a little dash of orange. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I didn't know about the Fabric Workshop before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I was familiar with some of their past projects, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but I didn't know the whole scope of this place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm just gonna keep going. - Keep going. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - Just give a shape and I'll make it. - That's perfect. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - They were just inviting me to play, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were like, what in your practice do you feel 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you don't really get to do as much? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Coming from Santa Clara, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've only sort of played around with fabric 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for ceremonial stuff. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can't participate 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or have what you're supposed to wear for ceremony 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 unless you make it yourself, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and so most people in the tribe know how to sew. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, dope, I like that one a lot. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ah! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Okay, is it okay if I chop 'em? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - Yeah, chop them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - This is like the funnest ever. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is like Rose's bliss. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This show, it's like sifting through your world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to find what is delicious and what isn't. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I wanna just shake it and all the other stuff come out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and only the good stuff left. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) (machine whirring) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All right. What have we here? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So cool how it hardens up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is perfect. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I couldn't imagine a better morning. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've invested so much outside of myself, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like I'm very much, I think, giving my energy away. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is a prayer that my life changes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that I can make space for the things I value for myself, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and those aesthetics that I value 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are not just going out there in the world, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that they're coming back to me and to my lived spaces. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I woke up from a dream this morning 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that my clay had seeds in it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - [Producer] Was that a scary dream? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - No, it was like... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know, the metaphor is interesting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I really like listening to my dreams. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lots and lots of journeys, like walking this path 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's like a familiar place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When I travel, the first thing I think is, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 geez, I wonder what this place looked like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before it was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like, who were the indigenous people? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What did the land feel like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and what were the languages spoken and how did that sound? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I always think that, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you can fall into a really deep sadness. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I can hold space for that and be like, yes, I'm sad, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I'm always really sad and it's always really complicated 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it's like, yeah, and. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It hurts, and it's also now in the present 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we can find incredibly beautiful things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We give baskets with gifts in the community. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like if you do something nice for somebody, you get baskets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then you'll hang it up in your house, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then if you need to gift, then you have baskets. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it keeps getting kind of moved around. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Some elders will have their whole ceiling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just covered in baskets. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Your worth is based on how much you can give 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and how you're recognized for the gifts you give. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We remove our shoes and we can sit with each other. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And above us are paper bowls that have stars in them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that create the ceiling of guidance. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then below us are pillows that have stars on them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And so we're like... the comfort of guidance is holding us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to give us a place to connect. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The layers of the rooms in this exhibit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are very much about boundaries and how much I share 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and how much I don't share. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I wanted people to see what the walls were made out of, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which also provides an incredible opportunity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to feel like you're in between the walls. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it is like entering into layers of the subconscious. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then there was this deeper space 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you can only see a section of. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And there's actually parts of the room no one will ever see. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My work is so much about giving back self 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or consciousness to things that we have deemed lifeless. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There are three masks in the work room 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and in that sort of pressure, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you're sitting in the hot seat, you're being watched 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 by more than we would ever know, and that's supportive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's also probably a little bit critical at times, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But how do you act when you know you have 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this community that's larger than what we perceive? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're on this grind, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it goes and goes and goes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's not necessarily a bad thing, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's actually the deliciousness of life, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I wouldn't be doing this work 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if it wasn't the thing that I needed to learn the most. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And so everything that I do like this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hopefully is tipping the scale. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Every rock on this side where my life becomes more conscious 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and more intentional and more prayerful. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's my goal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's my dream. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (soft ethereal music)