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- You know when you have
dreams that you're in a house,

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it's often the parts of your psyche.

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And the different rooms
are different places

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in your mind and your spirit.

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A reoccurring place that
represents the parts of ourselves

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or different times of our lives.

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As we come to the rooms in this exhibit,

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your shadow is cast on the wall,

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and we begin with the
awareness of our bodies

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and our impact in that space.

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I would ask people to enter into the space

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with the kind of reverence
that we would enter

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into our own psychological spaces,

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that we would navigate
our own internal spaces.

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Even if that sensitivity

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isn't a comfortable neural pathway,

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we can build one.

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This is how we start.

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Cool.

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Yes.

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Start with a little dash of orange.

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I didn't know about the
Fabric Workshop before.

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I was familiar with some
of their past projects,

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but I didn't know the
whole scope of this place.

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I'm just gonna keep going.
- Keep going.

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- Just give a shape and I'll make it.
- That's perfect.

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- They were just inviting
me to play, right?

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They were like, what in
your practice do you feel

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you don't really get to do as much?

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Coming from Santa Clara,

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I've only sort of played
around with fabric

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for ceremonial stuff.

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You can't participate

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or have what you're supposed
to wear for ceremony

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unless you make it yourself,

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and so most people in the
tribe know how to sew.

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Oh, dope, I like that one a lot.

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Ah!

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Okay, is it okay if I chop 'em?

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- Yeah, chop them.

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- This is like the funnest ever.

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This is like Rose's bliss.

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This show, it's like
sifting through your world

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to find what is delicious and what isn't.

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I wanna just shake it and
all the other stuff come out

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and only the good stuff left.

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(soft ethereal music)
(machine whirring)

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All right. What have we here?

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So cool how it hardens up.

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This is perfect.

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I couldn't imagine a better morning.

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(soft ethereal music)

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I've invested so much outside of myself,

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like I'm very much, I think,
giving my energy away.

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This is a prayer that my life changes

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and that I can make space for
the things I value for myself,

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and those aesthetics that I value

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are not just going out there in the world,

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that they're coming back to
me and to my lived spaces.

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(soft ethereal music)

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I woke up from a dream this morning

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that my clay had seeds in it.

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- [Producer] Was that a scary dream?

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- No, it was like...

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I don't know, the metaphor is interesting.

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I really like listening to my dreams.

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Lots and lots of journeys,
like walking this path

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that's like a familiar place.

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When I travel, the first thing I think is,

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geez, I wonder what this place looked like

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before it was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Like, who were the indigenous people?

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What did the land feel like

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and what were the languages
spoken and how did that sound?

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I always think that,

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and you can fall into
a really deep sadness.

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And I can hold space for that
and be like, yes, I'm sad,

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and I'm always really sad and
it's always really complicated

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and it's like, yeah, and.

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It hurts, and it's also now in the present

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and we can find incredibly
beautiful things.

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We give baskets with
gifts in the community.

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Like if you do something nice
for somebody, you get baskets

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and then you'll hang it up in your house,

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and then if you need to
gift, then you have baskets.

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So it keeps getting kind of moved around.

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Some elders will have their whole ceiling

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just covered in baskets.

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Your worth is based on
how much you can give

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and how you're recognized
for the gifts you give.

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We remove our shoes and we
can sit with each other.

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And above us are paper bowls
that have stars in them

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that create the ceiling of guidance.

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And then below us are pillows
that have stars on them.

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And so we're like... the comfort
of guidance is holding us

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to give us a place to connect.

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The layers of the rooms in this exhibit

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are very much about boundaries
and how much I share

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and how much I don't share.

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I wanted people to see what
the walls were made out of,

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which also provides an
incredible opportunity

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to feel like you're in between the walls.

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And it is like entering into
layers of the subconscious.

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Then there was this deeper space

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that you can only see a section of.

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And there's actually parts of
the room no one will ever see.

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(soft ethereal music)

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My work is so much about giving back self

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or consciousness to things
that we have deemed lifeless.

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(soft ethereal music)

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There are three masks in the work room

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and in that sort of pressure,

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you're sitting in the hot
seat, you're being watched

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by more than we would ever
know, and that's supportive.

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It's also probably a little
bit critical at times, right?

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But how do you act when you know you have

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this community that's larger
than what we perceive?

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We're on this grind, right?

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And it goes and goes and goes.

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It's not necessarily a bad thing,

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it's actually the
deliciousness of life, right?

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This is it.

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I wouldn't be doing this work

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if it wasn't the thing that
I needed to learn the most.

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And so everything that I do like this

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hopefully is tipping the scale.

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Every rock on this side where
my life becomes more conscious

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and more intentional and more prayerful.

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It's my goal.

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It's my dream.

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