Hello there!

My goal is to create connections with the world around us - whether that is through art, through research and teaching, or through community, and anything in between.

Our commodified world is disconnected. And not just in the granola way that we should all live on a homestead, grow our own food, vlog about it on YouTube, and all own fancy camera gear paid for by the money from sponsored content promoting “health supplements” despite demonizing processed food. But that’s another story.

I see that this disconnection is driven by the systems that humans have created. The drive for productivity, driven by socioeconomic insecurity and inequitable concentration of wealth, can disconnect us from forming communities based around anything other than capital and transactional exchanges. The ongoing hustle to make ends meet or trying to get one step ahead under these societal conditions can even disconnect some people from their bodies and the most basic needs (nourishment). This system that concentrates wealth in small places seems to necessitate “cheap” material products, but abstract supply chains disconnect us from the life, labour, and environmental conditions of those producing the goods and raw materials and how the undervaluing of their worth makes them low cost to begin with. Our ongoing global history of colonialism, white supremacy, and neo-imperialism, which try hide behind the seemingly neutral facade of globalization, erases the connections that would show us the how other lands and peoples created the wealth to begin with. The list goes on.

I believe that working towards a better world has to start with connection. Connecting to community and the beautiful peoples all around us. Connecting to the land and the environment. Connecting to our own human existence. And, not at all the least, learning to look at our systems and connect the dots so that we can see how everything fits into the bigger structures that we’ve made. Only once we see these connections can we fight to uproot the broken systems underneath.

Connection, at all these levels, is key.