Right Now 𖤓
Right Now 𖤓
the work is in reweaving
Currently, I’m designing and completing a DIY MFA in Detroit, exploring what learning led by my community and friends looks like. I’m also Detroit Disability Power’s Communications Coordinator. Disability Justice deeply informs the way I move through the world, and I am committed to building a world where our vulnerability is our social glue and source of power.
I offer plant, energy, and ancestor work. At the core, all three modalities work with the understanding that consciousness, information, and healing move through energetic fields and relationships rather than just individual, isolated bodies. This means that transformation doesn't just happen "to you" - it happens in the relational space between you and these larger webs of life. From this perspective, most suffering comes from feeling cut off from these larger fields of support and wisdom. So our work becomes about remembering and reweaving the connections - to ancestors, to the living world, to your own spiritual body.
Plant medicine is not just ingesting a “substance” but entering into relationship with a consciousness that has mastered living in interconnected awareness; plants help us remember that our nervous systems are part of a larger ecosystem.
Ancestor work metabolizes pain across lineages — space and time. When we are in relationship with our ancestors, we are connected to a love that is bigger than history.
When we recognize how our energy affects all life around us, we understand our responsibility to tend our own energetic well-being — energy work provides practical tools for doing this.
Where
Detroit occupies the contemporary and ancestral homelands of the Ojibwe, the Ottawa, and Potawatomi
currently in Detroit, MI
About
Hi, I’m Veronica (she/they), artist and space + change holder exploring creativity as the bridge between individual, cultural, and environmental healing. I study emotion and expression to understand how we learn and change.
Whose work has created me? This is my web of mentors and elders.
I'm white, born in Oak Park, Illinois, homelands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox. I've also called Iowa and Michigan home. A midwesterner at heart, I'm passionate about the climate futures of the Great Plains.
I'm only beginning to uncover the stories intentionally buried by my people. On my paternal side, I am descended from Catholics of Croatian and Volga German descent, as well as Welsh and English immigrants. On my maternal side, my ancestors are Danish, Polish, German and Irish.
I have a BA from Grinnell College where I crafted an independent major in Narrative Studies to explore the liberatory potential of media and storytelling. For 5+ years, I’ve helped various kinds of organizations with communications and digital storytelling projects. (Portrait by Loren Kmp Photography)