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00:00:12.958 --> 00:00:16.200 - You know when you have dreams that you're in a house,
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00:00:39.570 --> 00:00:42.690 As we come to the rooms in this exhibit,
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00:00:59.220 --> 00:01:01.906 I would ask people to enter into the space
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00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.831 Even if that sensitivity
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00:01:17.561 --> 00:01:18.665 we can build one.
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00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:38.393 Cool.
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00:01:40.590 --> 00:01:43.410 Start with a little dash of orange.
00:01:43.410 --> 00:01:47.070 I didn't know about the Fabric Workshop before.
00:01:47.070 --> 00:01:49.492 I was familiar with some of their past projects,
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00:01:51.730 --> 00:01:53.650 I'm just gonna keep going. - Keep going.
00:01:53.650 --> 00:01:56.244 - Just give a shape and I'll make it. - That's perfect.
00:01:56.244 --> 00:01:58.800 - They were just inviting me to play, right?
00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:01.936 They were like, what in your practice do you feel
00:02:01.936 --> 00:02:04.443 you don't really get to do as much?
00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:07.170 Coming from Santa Clara,
00:02:07.170 --> 00:02:09.600 I've only sort of played around with fabric
00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:10.863 for ceremonial stuff.
00:02:12.150 --> 00:02:13.770 You can't participate
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00:02:17.970 --> 00:02:20.943 and so most people in the tribe know how to sew.
00:02:22.950 --> 00:02:25.473 Oh, dope, I like that one a lot.
00:02:26.760 --> 00:02:27.750 Ah!
00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:29.627 Okay, is it okay if I chop 'em?
00:02:29.627 --> 00:02:30.810 - Yeah, chop them.
00:02:30.810 --> 00:02:33.093 - This is like the funnest ever.
00:02:33.930 --> 00:02:36.153 This is like Rose's bliss.
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00:02:40.260 --> 00:02:44.490 This show, it's like sifting through your world
00:02:44.490 --> 00:02:47.133 to find what is delicious and what isn't.
00:02:48.450 --> 00:02:51.450 I wanna just shake it and all the other stuff come out
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00:03:04.830 --> 00:03:06.697 All right. What have we here?
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00:03:21.030 --> 00:03:24.056 So cool how it hardens up.
00:03:24.056 --> 00:03:25.170 This is perfect.
00:03:25.170 --> 00:03:27.284 I couldn't imagine a better morning.
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00:03:33.210 --> 00:03:36.270 I've invested so much outside of myself,
00:03:36.270 --> 00:03:40.113 like I'm very much, I think, giving my energy away.
00:03:41.670 --> 00:03:45.150 This is a prayer that my life changes
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00:04:00.557 --> 00:04:02.760 I woke up from a dream this morning
00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:05.420 that my clay had seeds in it.
00:04:08.550 --> 00:04:10.320 - [Producer] Was that a scary dream?
00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:11.510 - No, it was like...
00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:16.980 I don't know, the metaphor is interesting.
00:04:20.104 --> 00:04:22.860 I really like listening to my dreams.
00:04:22.860 --> 00:04:26.662 Lots and lots of journeys, like walking this path
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00:04:36.830 --> 00:04:39.270 When I travel, the first thing I think is,
00:04:39.270 --> 00:04:41.580 geez, I wonder what this place looked like
00:04:41.580 --> 00:04:46.580 before it was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
00:04:46.740 --> 00:04:49.110 Like, who were the indigenous people?
00:04:49.110 --> 00:04:51.712 What did the land feel like
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00:04:55.650 --> 00:04:56.760 I always think that,
00:04:56.760 --> 00:05:01.293 and you can fall into a really deep sadness.
00:05:04.491 --> 00:05:07.893 And I can hold space for that and be like, yes, I'm sad,
00:05:08.970 --> 00:05:12.370 and I'm always really sad and it's always really complicated
00:05:13.890 --> 00:05:15.483 and it's like, yeah, and.
00:05:16.410 --> 00:05:19.740 It hurts, and it's also now in the present
00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:22.914 and we can find incredibly beautiful things.
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00:05:28.110 --> 00:05:31.825 We give baskets with gifts in the community.
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00:05:37.128 --> 00:05:39.990 and then if you need to gift, then you have baskets.
00:05:39.990 --> 00:05:42.951 So it keeps getting kind of moved around.
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00:05:46.822 --> 00:05:49.500 Some elders will have their whole ceiling
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00:05:55.710 --> 00:05:58.890 Your worth is based on how much you can give
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00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.249 We remove our shoes and we can sit with each other.
00:06:07.249 --> 00:06:12.177 And above us are paper bowls that have stars in them
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00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:23.100 And so we're like... the comfort of guidance is holding us
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00:06:36.900 --> 00:06:39.870 The layers of the rooms in this exhibit
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00:06:55.278 --> 00:06:57.932 I wanted people to see what the walls were made out of,
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00:07:01.290 --> 00:07:04.015 to feel like you're in between the walls.
00:07:04.961 --> 00:07:08.343 And it is like entering into layers of the subconscious.
00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.210 Then there was this deeper space
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00:07:30.861 --> 00:07:35.520 My work is so much about giving back self
00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:40.048 or consciousness to things that we have deemed lifeless.
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00:07:43.555 --> 00:07:46.950 There are three masks in the work room
00:07:46.950 --> 00:07:48.350 and in that sort of pressure,
00:07:48.350 --> 00:07:50.820 you're sitting in the hot seat, you're being watched
00:07:50.820 --> 00:07:55.020 by more than we would ever know, and that's supportive.
00:07:55.020 --> 00:07:59.520 It's also probably a little bit critical at times, right?
00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:02.680 But how do you act when you know you have
00:08:03.690 --> 00:08:07.083 this community that's larger than what we perceive?
00:08:08.915 --> 00:08:10.980 We're on this grind, right?
00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:13.032 And it goes and goes and goes.
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00:08:20.070 --> 00:08:21.720 It's not necessarily a bad thing,
00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.990 it's actually the deliciousness of life, right?
00:08:24.990 --> 00:08:25.823 This is it.
00:08:28.942 --> 00:08:30.600 I wouldn't be doing this work
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00:08:35.542 --> 00:08:38.410 And so everything that I do like this
00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.292 hopefully is tipping the scale.
00:08:42.292 --> 00:08:46.290 Every rock on this side where my life becomes more conscious
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00:08:52.260 --> 00:08:53.103 It's my goal.
00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:55.617 It's my dream.
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