I felt like it was my duty to uncover these stories — in a way I had to move through them, making paintings inspired by them and I even made a short film about this familial excavation with a wonderful group of female collaborators.

For this book, we wanted to create a virus… a way to infiltrate “legitimizing” institutions with our grassroots collection.

the idea that human rights are tied to land and the fact that plants are part of my work is no coincidence. Indigenous cultures wouldn’t exist without access to land as a fundamental right. That’s a theme in my work: food culture, human rights, access to land, taste.