Each iteration of this work has multiple installations on site for participants to engage with.

Material Altar

This altar space is an ode to our shared material, a collection of our best offerings and a representation of what we hold precious. We are exploring our collective preciousness, softness, and generosity. This is an altar to the process of materialization. Shades of green represent the abundance of nature that thrives in interconnectedness. Green is also the color of the heart chakra and represents our ability to love ourselves and each other.

How to Interact: What you put here lives here: please do not take items off this altar. Feel free to leave altar items, prayers, ancestors’ names, affirmations, materials from nature, creations and stories here.

Dreams & Portals

This altar space is a call to action for Palestine. We dedicate this altar as a hope of remembrance, reverence and deep care through solidarity. The colors of white and silver represent purity, reflection and protection. We have placed Palestinian sweets and desserts for the many children lost through genocide. Reflect on ways you can offer. Turn your prayers to action here.

How to Interact: What you put here lives here, please do not take items off this altar. Feel free to leave seashells, desserts and affirmations. Enact a prayer at the altar. Meaning— take action before you leave. Scan the QR code for offerings of actions.

Alter Space

This altar/alter space is where collective gathering happens. It holds items from several iterations, notes and creations forged by many hands. It is equivalent to the watering hole or the community church. It is where we are reminded of the value of our collective embodiment. It is also a play space where we discover new ways of being together.

The Bed

A large resting area with blankets and memory foam are laid out. Two overlapping projections interface with each other. Movement artist and nature find relationships in our make shift sky. Audience is offered room to meditate on the images, sleep and rest.

Looking Glass

Several cardboard pieces are assembled and various shapes are cut out. Multicolor gels fill in the various shapes with hues of orange, blues and purples. The audience is invited to look through “the looking glass” where the entire space can be seen in an altered state. A speech from Alexis Pauline Gumbs at Duke University’s  2024 CADD conference plays alongside this installation.

The River

Inspired by images of baby mobiles, explorations with wire, and the popular Pro-Palestinian saying, “from the river to the sea”. The mobile grows with each iteration. New people adding new shapes to it.

Collage Corner

An introverts dream. The collage corner was designed as a retreat space from some of the collective offerings in the space. It is meant to be a tedious and healthy stimming exercise specifically geared toward those who are neuro-divergent.

The Tree

An anchor in the space that holds collective offerings, hanging from the ceiling. Unfinished with recycled cardboard and silver shiny duck tape. A piece of pink fleshy cloth serves as a projection screen. The video provides words to the audience as a reminder of the intentions and affirmations we are lifting up in the space. “Nothing is too precious to reshape” “Welcome home”.