as we remember, 2024 — COLDANDWETFROMTHEEARTH

Mira is an abolitionist artist, educator, researcher, and organizer based in Chicago. Their work explores global histories of resistance with a focus on the role state violence, censorship, and manufactured scarcity have had on our collective ability to imagine other realities and ways of life. Through the pursuit of alternative modes of documentation and cultural preservation, they seek forms and means of memory work that do not rely on imperial and colonial tools of capture and subjugation and instead rehearse collective liberation.

You can find more of their work on Instagram @coldandwetfromtheearth.

They are currently the General Manager at abolitionist gallery and community space Walls Turned Sideways based in East Garfield.

Mira holds a Master of Art’s in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Michigan where they studied Ethnic Studies, Art History, and Ceramics.

They have worked with the following organizations: Walls Turned Sideways, The Digs, Patric McCoy Legacy Project/Diasporal Rhythms, Groundcover News, Michigan Student Power Alliance, and NON:Opera Arts & Humanities.

IMAGE ARCHIVE —

as we remember, October 2024
Soft book, made from scrap laser-engraved scrap fabric.

This piece began in November 2023 and has transformed continually over the last 300 days, representative of a sustained experience of meaning-seeking amidst loss and violence. Through the mechanized process of burning text onto found fabric via a laser cutter, scholarly legibility becomes tenuous and material loss inevitable. Invoking the medium of the archive, and its fallibility, as we remember reflects on epistemicide and scholasticide and material violence and our responsibility to the stewardship of resistance and revolutionary thought as a collective generational inheritance.