For my birthday, I birthed Orquidia, a Chaleco Protector self portrait. Like a flower, our birthdays bloom annually, marking the passage of years with delicate resilience.
With a woven basket on her head and another at her feet—symbols of labor, tradition, and sustenance. Her long braids flow down, embodying a deep cultural resonance. In many Native American traditions, braids signify a sacred bond with the spiritual world and the Earth. They express identity, community, and resilience, while also serving practical and ceremonial roles within daily life and ancestral customs.
I feel the struggle and care native people have for this land.
I found hawk feathers. Was it injured? Another landed outside my window to kill a bird. I found little feathers scattered on the grass. Everything comes together in a world of feathers
Gratitude for the mother tree who gives us a breath of fresh air, water to drink, and the earth we stand on.
A personification of the Salmon River estuary blows wind through the forest from lips colored with ochre, and all are in harmony.
