Matriarch
This work explores the gestures, presence, and quiet authority of matriarchs within family and community life.
Through photography, poetry, and reflection, it traces memory and connection across generations — attending to the ways knowledge, care, and resilience are carried through relationships, ritual, and everyday moments.
Hands naturally gesture. By observing these movements, I began to translate them into choreographic forms — gestures that carry memory, story, and the quiet beauty of everyday embodied moments.
I come from my grandmother's kitchen, stitched together by flour sack aprons.
From carefully choreographed fibers woven together to hold a familial story, like the strength of my grandmother’s hands.
Holding the Matriarch: Workshop Reflections. Echoes of shared experience
Matriarch is shaped by oral tradition, storytelling, and familial memory.
In the kitchen with my mother, language softens into gesture. Through shared work, I move within a lineage of women whose labor, resilience, and stories are carried forward in the smallest acts of daily life.
Memory does not stay still - it continues to move through us in gesture, lineage, and the quiet rituals of remembering
