The idea of earth day is funny when you think about it. Shouldn’t we always be thinking about the earth? After all, it’s the place where we live. The only one. This is it. Can’t upgrade or move to a new neighborhood. I used to be clueless about all...
This winter, just after Christmas, I found out that my friend Rashid Dongola had passed away. I met Rashid in Kashmir when I was working on my Enemies Project in that mythical seeming land that lies on the border of India and Pakistan. Rashid was one of the many...
On my first trip to Kenya for the Enemies Project, I went to the Mathare slum of Kenya to meet people who had been affected by the tragic post-election riots that swept through Kenya in 2009. One of the people I met in Mathare was Benard Ochieng who had started a...
An abstraction on dance and water. I created this video after working with with dancers Morgan Teal and Rachael Hulse the founders of Dance Waterloo, whose mission is to cultivate, create, and perform interdisciplinary methods of dance for the community through...
This holiday season I got one of the most amazing gifts I’ve ever received, and I want to share the story. The week before Thanksgiving, I found out that I have two adult children that I don’t know anything about. I’ve had a lot of excellent conversation...