we bear the fruit of our ancestors

In collaboration with Kuniharu Yoshida, we bear the fruits of our ancestors, a temporary, public mural spanning 600 feet was installed for Metro L.A.’s Center Street Project (2023-2024) Working with Sustainable Little Tokyo, we held a community workshop along with Empty Your Cup, a free downloadable workbook.

The inspiration for this project is the land we call home and the communities who steward this land, cultivate it and provide our city, state and nation, the food which nourishes our bodies. The same bodies that walk this earth and will return to the earth once our time here is through. It’s an important circle.

First Nations, Black, Mexican, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indian and Yemeni people are just some of the communities who have contributed greatly to farming history in California. While this history is full of systemic injustices, descendants of the same communities are doing amazing work today that everyone on the land benefits from.

In gratitude, we acknowledge that we, in Los Angeles, are on the traditional and unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva people. We thank you and all First Nations of the country we call home