1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,410 (soft music) 2 00:00:06,844 --> 00:00:10,140 (soft ethereal music) 3 00:00:12,946 --> 00:00:16,196 - You know when you have dreams that you're in a house, 4 00:00:16,196 --> 00:00:18,356 it's often the parts of your psyche. 5 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:23,429 And the different rooms are different places 6 00:00:23,429 --> 00:00:25,499 in your mind and your spirit. 7 00:00:25,499 --> 00:00:28,609 (soft ethereal music) 8 00:00:28,609 --> 00:00:33,149 A reoccurring place that represents the parts of ourselves 9 00:00:33,149 --> 00:00:35,640 or different times of our lives. 10 00:00:35,640 --> 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 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 your shadow is cast on the wall, 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and we begin with the awareness of our bodies 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and our impact in that space. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I would ask people to enter into the space 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with the kind of reverence that we would enter 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 into our own psychological spaces, 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that we would navigate our own internal spaces. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Even if that sensitivity 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 isn't a comfortable neural pathway, 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we can build one. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is how we start. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cool. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Yes. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Start with a little dash of orange. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I didn't know about the Fabric Workshop before. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I was familiar with some of their past projects, 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but I didn't know the whole scope of this place. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm just gonna keep going. - Keep going. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - Just give a shape and I'll make it. - That's perfect. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - They were just inviting me to play, right? 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They were like, what in your practice do you feel 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you don't really get to do as much? 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Coming from Santa Clara, 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've only sort of played around with fabric 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for ceremonial stuff. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can't participate 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or have what you're supposed to wear for ceremony 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 unless you make it yourself, 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and so most people in the tribe know how to sew. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Oh, dope, I like that one a lot. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Ah! 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, is it okay if I chop 'em? 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - Yeah, chop them. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - This is like the funnest ever. 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is like Rose's bliss. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This show, it's like sifting through your world 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to find what is delicious and what isn't. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I wanna just shake it and all the other stuff come out 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and only the good stuff left. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) (machine whirring) 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All right. What have we here? 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So cool how it hardens up. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is perfect. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I couldn't imagine a better morning. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've invested so much outside of myself, 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 like I'm very much, I think, giving my energy away. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is a prayer that my life changes 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and that I can make space for the things I value for myself, 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and those aesthetics that I value 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 are not just going out there in the world, 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that they're coming back to me and to my lived spaces. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I woke up from a dream this morning 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that my clay had seeds in it. 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - [Producer] Was that a scary dream? 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 - No, it was like... 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don't know, the metaphor is interesting. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I really like listening to my dreams. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Lots and lots of journeys, like walking this path 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that's like a familiar place. 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When I travel, the first thing I think is, 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 geez, I wonder what this place looked like 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 before it was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Like, who were the indigenous people? 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What did the land feel like 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and what were the languages spoken and how did that sound? 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I always think that, 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and you can fall into a really deep sadness. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I can hold space for that and be like, yes, I'm sad, 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and I'm always really sad and it's always really complicated 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and it's like, yeah, and. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It hurts, and it's also now in the present 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and we can find incredibly beautiful things. 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We give baskets with gifts in the community. 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Like if you do something nice for somebody, you get baskets 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and then you'll hang it up in your house, 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and then if you need to gift, then you have baskets. 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So it keeps getting kind of moved around. 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some elders will have their whole ceiling 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 just covered in baskets. 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Your worth is based on how much you can give 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and how you're recognized for the gifts you give. 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We remove our shoes and we can sit with each other. 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And above us are paper bowls that have stars in them 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that create the ceiling of guidance. 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And then below us are pillows that have stars on them. 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And so we're like... the comfort of guidance is holding us 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to give us a place to connect. 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The layers of the rooms in this exhibit 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 are very much about boundaries and how much I share 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and how much I don't share. 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I wanted people to see what the walls were made out of, 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which also provides an incredible opportunity 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to feel like you're in between the walls. 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And it is like entering into layers of the subconscious. 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then there was this deeper space 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that you can only see a section of. 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And there's actually parts of the room no one will ever see. 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 My work is so much about giving back self 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or consciousness to things that we have deemed lifeless. 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 125 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are three masks in the work room 126 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and in that sort of pressure, 127 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you're sitting in the hot seat, you're being watched 128 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by more than we would ever know, and that's supportive. 129 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's also probably a little bit critical at times, right? 130 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But how do you act when you know you have 131 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this community that's larger than what we perceive? 132 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We're on this grind, right? 133 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And it goes and goes and goes. 134 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 135 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's not necessarily a bad thing, 136 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's actually the deliciousness of life, right? 137 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is it. 138 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I wouldn't be doing this work 139 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 if it wasn't the thing that I needed to learn the most. 140 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 141 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And so everything that I do like this 142 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 hopefully is tipping the scale. 143 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Every rock on this side where my life becomes more conscious 144 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and more intentional and more prayerful. 145 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music) 146 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's my goal. 147 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's my dream. 148 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (soft ethereal music)