Poetic Topography
2025 work in progress
Poetic Topography is a somatic-artistic inquiry into the relationship between body and land, mapping felt experience through textile, drawing, and poetic cartography. Created through a year of daily walks on the land traditionally known as Xaymaca—land of wood and water, ancestral home of the Taíno, a site inscribed by colonization, enslavement, and resistance . This work emerges from a period of profound healing during a critical phase of chronic illness. In a terrain long subjected to extractive logics and colonial mapping, this practice reclaims the act of mapping as an embodied, relational gesture—one rooted in sensation, reverence, and listening. As a queer, differently abled body moving in dialogue with land and more-than-human kin, the work honors the felt sense as a valid form of knowledge. Poetic Topography resists dominant cartographic traditions and instead offers a quiet, anti-colonial map: a soft geography of healing, reciprocity, and somatic belonging.


