Ixchel Tonantzin Xochitlzihuatl is a visual, community, and conceptual artist who works to evolve the collective imagination towards more peaceful, just and liberatory present/ futures. She served as one of five artist researcher partners in ThirdSpace’s Storied Communities, Community Stories project. Xochitlzihuatl has ancestral roots connecting her to the Rio Grande Valley and moved to the region for a fellowship with buildingcommunityWORKSHOP in 2016; after the fellowship ended, she has continued to work with the community in the Rio Grande Valley to this day.
Space-place activation,
Time/ line configurations.
To gather: food (resource community, nourish souls, connect hearts.)
Plants,
As portals.
Water,
As memory.
Elder wisdom,
within our bodies.
Stories that soar,
beyond borders.
Rainbows and resacas,
Illuminating,
Refracting,
Remembering,
Re-Member-Ing.
(A gerund)
The light, the water, the sand,
In motion.
The space,
Of our bodies.
The space between our bodies.
Our bodies like stars,
Constellations of hope,
Singing our way,
To the homes in our heart.
Home is here,
We are home.