PROLOGUE: CONSTELLATIONS
Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth… Genesis 4:13
East of Eden (2017-present) is a saga set in the California Central Valley, exploring themes of displacement, migration, resilience, faith and family in the migrant community whose labor feeds the United States. It embarks from the source, fleeing extreme violence and corruption birthed in Latin America by the U.S. lead war on drugs. East of Eden seeks home in the fertile and harsh lands between Fresno and Bakersfield and was only possible thanks to the kindness and sharing of the communities who wander and toil there.
Tracing the origins of forced migration, violence in Mexico.
Supporting Publishers
National Geographic
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
El Pais Magazine
Christianity Today Magazine
Supporting Organizations
For Freedoms
The Cesar Chavez Foundation
The United Farmworkers Union
Fresno Building Healthy Communities
Cultiva La Salud
The Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities
Supporting Publishers
National Geographic
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
El Pais Magazine
Christianity Today Magazine
Supporting Organizations
For Freedoms
The Cesar Chavez Foundation
The United Farmworkers Union
Fresno Building Healthy Communities
Cultiva La Salud
The Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities
The celestial tapestry gleams, we look to the heavens for guidance, for we are of stardust and to stardust we return.
Constellations seeks to remove the shroud of secrecy veiling the origin of our glistening rows of produce. To scatter obliged naivety to the wind until it falls gently on the sweat soaked faces of the California migrant laborer.
We begin with the stifling intensity of silenced pain.