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![Mosab Abu Toha, poem from his book Things You Might Find In My Ear]()
![Flowing Darias Collective, Felted Kin]()
![Flowing Darias Collective, Felted Kin]()
![Flowing Darias Collective (Cindy Velázquez), Felted Kin]()
![Flowing Darias Collective (Vivian González), Felted Kin]()
![Flowing Darias Collective (Erika Diaz), Felted Kin]()
![Gene Aguilar, Amid Israeli bombardment a Palestinian man returns to his home in Gaza, removes debris from his piece of land and cultivates the soil]()
![Gene Aguilar, Amid Israeli bombardment a Palestinian man returns to his home in Gaza, removes debris from his piece of land and cultivates the soil]()
![Grisabel Alfaro, 1-Untitled, 2-El Camino A Casa, 3-Los Caminos de la Vida]()
![Lena Abujbara, family image archives]()
![Lena Abujbara, family image archives]()
![Maritza Santiago, Untitled]()
![Natalie Gutiérrez, De la Tierra]()
![Natalie Gutiérrez, De la Tierra]()
![Natalie Gutiérrez, De la Tierra]()
![Natalie Gutiérrez, De la Tierra]()
![Katie Mejía, Roots]()
![Katie Mejía, Roots]()
April 11 2024 - May 16 2024
Opening April 11
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Mosab Abu Toha
Lena Abujbara
Gene Aguilar
Grisabel Alfaro
Flowing Darias Collective
Natalie Gutiérrez
Katie Mejía
Maritza Santiago
Flowing Darias Collective are: Stephanie Amiel, Manny Andrade, Jason Collier, Erika Diaz, Maritza Emigdio, Alexandra Gerardo, Brian Loaiza, Miriam Mercado, Andrea Montero, Anabel Morales, Jenny Morales, Emily Navarro, Janeth Ochoa, Isabel Paieda, Yadira Perez, Ashley Stone, Elizabeth Vasquez-Cerda, Cindy Velazquez.
Landscape features textile sculpture, video, poetry, photography, painting, installation and monoprints considering the aesthetic, political and ecological implications of framing Earth’s view “at one time from one place.”
landscape
While you may look around and see strings of fabric pieced together, words and photos plastered across the wall, painted sceneries with vibrant colors, if you dig a little deeper, they are so much more. Every stroke, every color, every face and every word carrying the pieces that make us whole in moments that were designed to break us.
A piece of me, a piece of you. A piece of us. Woven into the fabric of space and time. A single view that expands beyond language of understanding. Here you will find remnants of family, of longing for home in a place that we attempt to recreate. We come from longing. From displacement and disconnection. We come from homeland. From diaspora. With roots that reach every corner of our world. We are the bearers of life and love despite every attempt to eradicate us. Each of us is a universe with endless stories to tell. We are of the land that birthed our thirst for liberation. Our hearts sewn together with resistance and struggle.
Carry with you this piece of me, this piece of you, this piece of us. Carry with you this moment that holds hundreds of years of history, tradition and culture. Carry with you this memory of family. Of togetherness. Of separation and connection. Carry with you this piece that says everything without uttering a single word. Capturing the essence of the soul through stories. This piece that carries me, carries you, carries us. Carry with you this landscape that forever encapsulates the very essence of our being.
Text by Nadia Zyad Al-Said, CSUDH Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding student