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…

Meditation on these seeds as the connector between the land, the present moment, and my mother’s maternal lineage

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

This piece was made in memory of those we have lost and those who have struggled and sacrificed so much, so we could be here now.

This poem was sourced in Kingcome Inlet,BC and at an unknown river on the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

This seed was inspired by Nadia Myre’s poem, Under the Sky Blanket. I’ve been sleeping with a bowl of water next to my bed. The swaying lavender boat and little figure is praying to the stars and greater powers that be.

Arrivals Legacy Project SeedPool Artist – FIND MUTYA – Seed 1 Original WIRE-SOUND-VIDEO – Mutya Macatumpag *My lola (grandmother) passed away when my father was young. We never had the chance to meet. This is a gift from me to, Felicia Gabuya Macatumpag in my thoughts and heart, connected.

In the video, there is a pawpaw tree and dry woods; the young pawpaw is dancing & jubilating sensing the rain as life, the same rain that falls on the lifeless wood made it decaying from time time… What goes well with someone might turn to be deadly or fatal for another person. “LESSONS OF LIFE”

Dog puppet. Cat puppet. Ostrich puppet ? A small shrine. Animating the animal inanimate.

During my 4-month ultrasound, my doctor informed me that my baby seed girl was in prayer pose.

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

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.

Response to “What is a Seed?”

Image of a seed cycle of life.

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.

Sc̓rsiłməlx( Syilx) / Oregon Grape Bush (English) Medicine A traditional healer, Sc̓rsiłməlxin the Syilx language of this territory of the Okanagan First Nation, is a blood tonic, an antimicrobial, a laxative, and can ease stomach irritability.

matrilineal pain

ALPSP, Seed # 2 FIND MUTYA traversing the rockies, on my way home. What I am making… –Still Image Collage– FINDMUTYA

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