Salty Brown Femme(she/they) is a queer immigrant crip brown femme artist, scholar, healer, grower and seed enthusiast. Their life’s work is geared towards building a world free from punishment and living in self-sovereign and sustainable small communities. Towards this end, their artistic practice brings together seeds, dyes, textiles, spinning, weaving and sewing, to explore the intersections between seeds, community, growth, freedom and reimagining a newly transformed world. They see art as existing in the material world to make place, challenge, document, provide for and transform communities.
Their artist avatar Salty Brown Femme exists to subvert the state's gaze and to exist in all the forms that it takes to bring down oppressive structures and liberate our people. They are curious about how a Brown femme, who is thoroughly salty, yet filled with abundant love for this world and its possibilities, can create, repair, and engage with the earth, our people and support in promoting justice -- they see their art as a social practice within this paradigm. They create art to activate spaces within communities they are linked with and wearable forms of art(such as clothing, jewelry and objects we live with) that can function as collective dissent. Within the latter set up, they see their art as living along with people who resist carcerality in all its forms.