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