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
“We felt part of something bigger.”
"They are the heart of the family"
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
