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“As a Chamoru woman I wondered how we got from Fo'na (the first maga’håga, or female leader) to Santa Marian Kamalen (Guam's patron saint). What would these two beings do if they met eachother for the first time?

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THERE IS STILL LIFE



PHOTOGRAPHY
COMMUNITY 

There is still life is an ancestor portrait made with and for the visitors of a Toe Fo’i: The Return talk story.


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PASIFIKA TRANSMISSIONS


C0-CURATOR
PRODUCER
VIDEO PROGRAM

2020-2021
https://www.pieam.org/pasifika-transmissions

Pasifika Transmissions was a hybrid video program offered through the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach (PIEAM). It emerged in response to the closures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic with the goals of building cross-cultural community and uplifting the voices of Indigenous contemporary artists of the Pacific diaspora and our collective ancestors. Each month, we invited an artist in our Pacific Island community to the museum to create a connection with an ancestral piece and develop a 30 minute video or “transmission.”

We then streamed the videos on Facebook and subsequently archived them on PIEAM’s website as well as Youtube. Pasifika Transmissions takes its name from the practice of listening to the spirits of the collection. What some might call an artifact, or an object, can and does hold an ancestor, a spirit, or is imbued with a life energy.  Each artist responded to different calls and translated each spirit in different ways. As a producer and co-curator of this project, I used my skills as a filmmaker and photographer to support our artists and frame their work respectfully, whether it was livestreaming talks, readings, and performances, or producing more complex video assemblages.








FOR FREEDOMS
2020-2021


PHOTOGRAPHY 
ACTIVISM
CULTURE

Håfa taimanu nai siña ta fa’che’chu’i  i tano’-ta?  How can we serve our land?
As part of the 2020 Awakening campaign by For Freedoms.

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Installed in Tamuning, Guam, in partnership with This Is Unfinished

Translation by Jeremy Cepeda and Dakota Camacho

Photo by 21Pixels @twentyonepixels

We Are 
As part of For Freedoms AAPI Solidarity billboard initiative in partnership with Orange Barrel Media.

Photo by Philip Keith @philip_keith

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GAPOTULU AS PORTAL

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PHOTOGRAPHY 

2020
Series of works made for 
 https://fg-ce.info






MARIQUITA MICKI DAVIS
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