Waterbonds
The Arroyo Colorado Project
Meet the community fellows.
“Water Bonds: The Arroyo Colorado Project” is designed to help community members deepen their relationships to our natural built world via the exploration of the border region, emphasizing the interdependence of beings through the free movement of life-sustaining riparian bodies of water.
Our aim is to reestablish relationships and interdependence with the land, move away from established narratives about our people and this place and cultivate and enact our vision for the future.
We are focusing on bodies of water with this program, namely the Arroyo Colorado and interrogating how we can reclaim these bodies of water and reclaim our own narrative.
Our work is done with kaleidoscopic perspective, each colored fragment: a strategy supporting the other in the shift away from established hegemonic practices of alienation and extraction.
Like the native roots of this land, we are determined to grow freely, guided by the principles of self determination and resistance.
We do this by honoring those who come before us, our ancestors and indigenous communities alike.
Knowledge of land and knowledge of self are interwoven and sacred, and show up as scarcities in our post-colonialist structures.
As border dwellers, we have historically been ostracized from ancestral knowledge of place and of movement.
This deliberate action, particularly in the Rio Grande Valley, has bisected our sense of self.
Creating and sustaining the practices of awareness, intention and adaptability when interacting with and learning from our land, self and trans-national community are critical actions for conscious shifting, the vital role of culture and advocacy used to bolster revolutionary work.
