to learn Tibetan with སྐྱིད་དར་འཛོམས། (Skyi Trazomsa) and Sarnath International Nyingma Institute, seeding intentions for language preservation, to share, translate, and facilitate the visions of Tibetan ecologists for Eastern Tibet
to learn Gaelic in Northern An t-eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye), to be a part of what’s being conserved, restored, and are co-evolving, in states of shelter and exile
to build a continuous and physical abode with sacred relations, traversing and bordering ancestral homes from Chengdu, Sichuan, with bodies of water claimed by loon songs in Mni Sóta Maḳoce (Minnesota), and with growth in soil on the coastline of A’ Mhaoil (The Minch)
to tell stories through moving image, performance, sound, and painting, encoding objects of relations with dynamic and sentient systems in place, facilitating the reconciliation and reclaiming of received and invented technologies
to found, live, and make with ax archive, alongside partner in life Alexandra Van, in love, with joint care for lifeforce and gratitude
to take part in protection through shared refuge for the cultures and languages threatened, forging terms for remembrance of trans-generational markings carried and sensed in home geographies
to heal what alienates art and life, to practice and make aware alternative paths to cultures of complicity and patterns of extraction
to breathe with the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, breathing was the birth into mountains, steppes, and waterways, to learn and know with land-based patterns, and to bear witness to forms of governance
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