materials: ex lover’s old black denim jeans, collected over years and machine stitched together. yellow dropcloth left by my dad after he helped paint my house in albuquerque; cut and handstitched together seven years later. hourani wheat grown from seeds rediscovered at the masada fortress, cultivated and collected in northern california while working for the mendocino grain project. luna, who shared how this wheat has grown in syria, her homeland, for millennia, yet hardly found there anymore––all quality grains exported. papalo seeds, the joy of my summer, gathered by cisco from the garden we tended in willits during a time of great heartbreak. skunk beans offered at an indigenous seed share at akwesasne, the st. regis mohawk reservation, ten years ago. metal pipe from the habitat for humanity resale store in albuquerque. memories of rats who played with beanie babies in my bedroom as a child; rats of kathmandu who scurried across my bed and ate the crotch of all my underwear; rats in sleeves and kitchen cabinets; stick n’ poke rat tattoo on my friend’s knee. accomplices not allies. anjing’s hair and ginkgo’s ashes.
2025. 94 x 66 inches.