Rename

This photo series seeks to expose the colonial presence on/of Stanfords campus through exploring and sharing out my own relationship with the Muwekma Ohlone land that the university occupies. These photos represent my relationship to these lands as an Indigenous student and highlight how I experience this university as one founded on, modeled after, and continuing today the exploitation and attempted genocide of Indigenous peoples. By putting the natural world around me into conversation with my own body and the man-made materials/conditions that constrict, restrict, and shape my body, I wanted to highlight the continued legacy of suppression and silencing of Stanfords legacy of trauma that impacts all Indigenous students to this day, whether we can name it or not. By centering my own body and my own relationship to the land in this project, I wanted to showcase how personally and deeply these wounds are felt - these traumas are not abstract, they take shape in our everyday lives.