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Social Practice
Re/Locating (2026-)A in-progress
Talking Threads (2026-ongoing)
Talking Threads is a memory woven experience that offers our shared communities the opportunity to contribute to a mutual aid by donating unwanted clothing in exchange for the items' garment history. Our project cycles through two main phases: an open-mic donation where the uneventful drop-off becomes a grand farewell, followed by a clothing rack with your donated items being stationed at various public spaces that allows buyers to read and/or listen to the garment's history through the voice of its previous owner. We explore the many meanings behind mending, repair and preservation in the space between memory and self.
This collaboration is in rhythm with Adela Cardona. We met through Portland State University’s Art+Social Practice MFA program, bonding over shared interests in the inherited objects within our own families. Seeing preservation as a form of care, we came together to explore how far this care can extend to and what impacts the explorations alone can have.
Diaspora Kitchen (2025-ongoing)
Diaspora Kitchen invesitgates how identity, memory and experiences of migration live in the ways we cook and eat. Much like the ways our mothers and grandmothers learned how to cook and continue to do so in practice, the project circulates around questions of home that refer to our intutive senses.
The first iteration occured as a part of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA’s Assembly 2025 with a recipe workshop at the South Park Blocks. Participants exchanged recipes that reminded them of home and were all compiled into a zine as Diaspora Kitchen’s first official cookbook. We spoke of the history embedded in each ingredient, each pinch of seasoning (and how much even is a pinch?), the things that would occur in order for the meal to taste right...The amount of people needed to be in the kitchen, the sounds of water boiling, the TV that must be on at all times while prepping vegetables by the counter. We spoke of the people and smells and sounds and feelings that made us feel whole with food being the conduit for these memroies.
Photo documentation of the first iteration is by Ame Morrison.
You Are What You Eat (2025)
You Are What You Eat was a collaboration under the Transformation, Love and Care (TLC) Collective in an effort to combine aspects of identity and play through food. Rooted in the collective’s shared positive experiences of connection over dining tables and shared lunches, TLC welcomed guests to an outdoor dinner party in SE Portland to create portraits of each other that would later be eaten. A menu of questions were prpvided to guide our guests through the event and the dialogue surrounding food, identity and connection.
The TLC collective is of Adela Cardona, Gwen Hoeffgen, Dominic Toliver and Sarah Luu.
Guided by the pedagogy of Olivia DelGandio under the MFA Art+Social Practice program.
Elementary Democracy in Session: Notes on Civics from Elementary School Students in Oregon (2025)
Commissioned for the Oregon State Capitol by Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places Program
Managed by the Oregon Arts Commission
Music
+Memory (2024)
A quick project made with people in Portland, Oregon made over the span of 2-3 weeks. Sunbmissions were collected from an open survey and participants were asked to submit a song associated with a cherished (or not so cherished) memory. The responses chosen for the zine were ones that stood out the most.
The songs from every submission were logged into a shared spotify playlist, which you can access here. :]
Art+Social Practice SOFA Interviews