Where Poetry Meets Science

We now know genetic memory is real. Epigenetics and brain science indicate we inherit the emotional experiences of our ancestors, and those experiences come to rest in our bodies and oral traditions. If an entire community undergoes the traumatic experience of conquest, colonization and loss of the land, trauma is both individual and collective. The […]

Fogon de Adobe

On exhibit at the Martinez Hacienda until November 1. This is an homage to my beloved, deceased zoquetero of many years, Chris Brito. I was thinking of all the fireplaces my daughter and I have built together while I was painting this, but the figure on the left would not become a woman – no […]