The Earth is my Elder is centred around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada. As a member of the Xicana diaspora, Arias’ direct connection to Indigenous land, language and culture has been broken over generations of migration arising as necessity from colonial structures.
Krista Arias is a PhD student at UBC Okanagan, The Earth is my Elder is part of Krista’s final dissertation.
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