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We devalue our creative energy because we have been socialized to devalue it. I want you to imagine tracing your energy across a stream, the way we would trace a river. Where and when is your energy generated? And when you are working on something, where does it end up? When I did this tracing visualization a year ago, I saw my energy ultimately... See more

An interesting thing happens when we are worlded into devaluation of our own creativity, energy, and potential. We unconsciously agree to that devaluation and assume roles, positions, and work that maintains us in that paradigm. This devaluation opens a valve for our energy and creativity to flow downstream into someone else’s profit and possibly... See more

In her poem “NewSpeakers,” Gloria Anzaldua proclaims We don’t want to be / Stars but parts / of constellations . Living now in a time of heightened disparity and manifold global atrocities being committed across political factions, Gloria’s proclamation resists the oppressive systems that thrive on individualism, isolation, division, and scarcity.... See more

For those who are blessed by not knowing what the cozy web means, it is a term used to describe the group chats and similar gate-kept spaces we use to communicate online while we are hiding from all the trolls and extremists who, assumingly, have taken over the internet.

I understand that as filmmakers we are also producers and laborers (per Benjamin’s Author as Producer ), and as such, I aim to weaponize my filmmaking skillsets against capitalism. As Benjamin noted: “[the] apparatus is better, the more consumers it is able to turn into producers-that is, readers or spectators into collaborators.”

Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.

Headwater is a portal. Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.

Charles Eisenstein wrote in his essay Inverting the Energy Paradigm :

Many of us today are reaching our limit. The condition called burnout mirrors the depletion of fossil fuels. But the solution to burnout is not to drink more coffee, or eat more food, or take better supplements. Nor is it to keep doing what we’ve been doing, only less of it. It is

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But rarely do we feel safe while telling the truth that comes from our bodies. Especially, when truth is not allowed in our families, households, work, schools, societies. Today, people get arrested, sentenced, and killed for telling, writing, and publishing truth. And with them, dies a larger body of humanity. There is no future without people who... See more

I am interested in handcrafted filmmaking and exploring the ways in which experimental and handcrafted animations make labor visible, aesthetically gesturing towards the workers behind their production.