Water Seeks a Body is a material meditation on water and kinship that springs from commitment to a future that uplifts relational existence stewarded by Native perspectives and practices. Vessels made of clay, shaped like plastic gallon jugs left on desert roadsides, trail heads and dangerous border crossings speak to recognition of the self in the other, the collective, the shared body. Fibers from native California fan palms and their distant date palm relatives, now neighbors, intertwine as cordage and basketry, interact with the vessels, eventually taking over their form as a rootball, reaching to the indiscriminate, life-giving force of water.
