Response to “What is a Seed?”

ALPSP – Seed Collab #3 – FIND MUTYA sound, inspired by Ruby Singh’s Image, Desi Futures 1, A Sikh temple spaceship that runs on harmonics. Eternal question to self…what empowers a community, what helps a culture harmonize and lift up?

I felt compelled to be in the forest, my grand mother and great grand mother, on my mother’s side speaking to me. So much sorrow in my heart from many recent deaths. This sorrow deeply connects to the losses that these two ancestors in particular had to endure. Where to find faith and trust?

Short Story

from my work as a cofacilitator … musing on this concept and its metaphors, responding to some call within me to redefine it. that a container does not restrain or restrict. The soil is the container life grows from

AI image of Desi Futures

A preachy essay that I hope has some value.

matrilineal pain

As a response to “What do you desire to hear, see, taste, smell, or touch, as you view this material?” I was inspired to eat rice. Next thing I knew, it had turned into a whole meal.

i sat by the red sea in 2023 the waters & the aliveness within healed my body-spirit this is some of what they spoke to & through me

This is a collaboration with Peter Olalekan Adekokan’s seed Tribute–a drum cycle played for the passing of my mum. Dancing Light video image was captured on the shores of Caribbean sea in Hopkins, Belize during the first part of my Garifuna Sojourn. The drum piece was recorded in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Every seed has a source… And it reproduce new seeds like itself

This video is of a collaboration between Rosemary Georgeson, Jonathan Langdon and Julie Tamiko Manning that took place in September 2023, at The Final Steps, a monument on a pier in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where each have ancestors that crossed this threshold between land and water.

Excerpt from solo performance I created with ALP sourced material and resilience.

A short video reflection on the shoreline in Nova Scotia.

I felt compelled to be in the forest, my grand mother and great grand mother on my mother’s side speaking to me. So much sorrow in my heart from many recent losses. Then, a new beginning…

This is a series of still images, from video footage taken by Gwen Armstrong, fellow participant in the Arrivals Co-Lab Residency. Fresh into her ALP work, a young Jude Wong found herself wandering through Vancouver’s China Town, and met with her Father at the Wong Benevolent Society.

mud flats and their cracks remind me of our skin and the groves of our beingness