Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.

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I will gladly sing tomorrow morning next to the ocean wave...

makalé cullen

...me gusta la libertad

Son de Madera/They Are Made Of Wood. I love love love this band, these musicians. I saw Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández, Tereso Vega, and Rubí Oseguera Rueda perform two years ago in DC at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

They’re part of a much larger group of farmer and rancher musicians from Veracruz playing son jarocho - music that has been around in various forms since the late 1700s.

They improvise for hours + you dance for hours.

Here’s the Folkways album, with Dan Sheehy’s & Rubí Oseguera’s liner notes. The first track, Las Poblanas & the fifth track, Cascabel are filling the apartment this morning as Rico packs for his month-long trip to the Carpathian Mountains for his upcoming film! 

This Machine Surrounds Hate, and Forces it to Surrender

The Torpedo Factory