Poems From Kay Pacha

The Quechua term, Kay Pacha, is interpreted as all living beings between the earth and sky in this space and time. Poems From Kay Pacha is a collaboration between my temporal body and the multitude of living entities with whom I cohabitate. Light sensitive Materials reveals the ephemeral presence and story of each plant and microbial relative. My own laborious processes of felting, plant & paper pruning, and Khipu-making are responses to the imprints and bodily remnants left behind. As a human member of the Peruvian and Ashkenazi diasporas, long exposure times ranging between twenty-four hours and one week under the sun grant me a deeper-rooted connection to the lands I now call home. Experimental Play in the form of mark making is an act of joy, and joy in the face of oppression is an act of resistance.