Hello. My name is Maze. This is what I look like:
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Maze (spirit)
Image description: A sketch with black pen and cross hatched shading on a slighlty gray-beige background. There is a gender-ambiguous human with short curly hair squatting on a cross hatched line that indicates a floor. The person’s body is somewhat misshapen with unrealistic proportions and a feral look in their eyes. One eye points down and the other is higher on the forehead point up to the left. They are smiling slightly:)
Maze (face)
Image description: My face and shoulders with low lighting. I have tan colored skin, dark hair with loose curls that is cut short on the sides. I am smiling big, my head tilted up a bit towards the camera. I am wearing dangly silver earrings and a knitted sweater with a biege collar. You can vaguely see some drawing on my chest and a drawing taped to the wall behind me.
My creative work spans visual art, writing, herbalism, land stewardship, farming, social practice, community organizing, and yoga instruction - through this collage of healing justice mediums I co-create windows into liberatory futures. My practice is an offering to my collaborators and communities to guide us, resource us, celebrate us, and help us heal. From archiving bathroom wall art to designing food forests, my projects bleed across surfaces and mediums, spill out of the gallery walls and onto the streets. In every project, my motivation is to create microcosms of home and healing, as someone coming from Ashkenazi and South Asian lineages of diaspora, displacement, disownership, queerness and disability.
My visual work explores themes of neurodivergence and embodiment, bringing my experience of reality as a neurodivergent person into physical form. The work is inspired by the visual relationships between human and ecological bodies, finding the shared visual patterns that reminds us we are Earth.
My practice is currently centered on a long-term multimedia framework called Loving through Apocalypse, which integrates writing, research, visual art, and social practice. The project is a map towards embodying the grounded state that allows us to survive the ends of worlds, rooted in my own experience with life-changing chronic illness. I am guided by questions such as: How to breath during genocide? To feed a body that is supposedly too sick to merit life? To do your part in mutual aid when it's not enough, never will be enough, will be a drop in an ocean of pain? To do this part with so much love. My creative practice is my part that I do with so much love.