Disaster Prep & Community Care
Documentation still from Disaster Prep & Community Care virtual workshop, fall 2020
As an artist, I have been creating work that speaks to this moment throughout the pandemic, including a series of online workshops (Disaster Prep & Community Care) to help facilitate a community-based re-thinking of the idea of disaster preparation. Within my exhibition, Fallout Shelter, disaster was redefined to include personal disasters; economic disasters; generational trauma wrought by racist, colonial systems; environmental disasters; and natural disasters including pandemics. By widening the scope of what is considered a disaster, I am linking the ways we prepare ourselves, creating echoes that help us find our way through the next wave of disasters that will ripple through.
Currently, the tools I have created for us include a series of questions and strategies that lives in an evolving spreadsheet (see above), data visualizations of our collective experience (such as the Fear Scale, below left), and opportunities to design labels for canned goods in my Fallout Shelter (below right).
Currently, the tools I have created for us include a series of questions and strategies that lives in an evolving spreadsheet (see above), data visualizations of our collective experience (such as the Fear Scale, below left), and opportunities to design labels for canned goods in my Fallout Shelter (below right).
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Below are some notes on self care that I found myself making over the past few years. I include affirmations, reminders, desires, reflections, and acknowledgements of fear. They are ongoing inspiration and bouncing off points for the work of these workshops. These drawings are the thread that I am knitting into the sweater of community care, with threads from others, asks and offers of support, and intentional awareness of our community needs.