Ancestors

As a way of understanding the memory of place both embodied and in dialogue with oneself, I crafted glass meteorites by rolling bubbles of molten glass in the soil of occupied stolen Narragansett and Wampanoag land. The interiors were then silvered to create an internal mirror that reflects a lustrous interior. These meteorites may seem alien, but I wanted to capture the earthly ancestral information recorded on their surface texture. Reflecting back is a distorted glimmer, a potential dialogue between oneself and the land they occupy. What could these meteorites say to me, a mestizo with ancestral ties to Central Mexico? How do we share a kinship on Turtle Island? I animate these thoughts through a video game space projected onto a room where the stones speak in poems. One can then interact with the digitized spirit realm of these stones using a controller who is half meteorite themself.

2020