holding space for creation

creating

About Vero >

artist / story weaver / space + change holder

tending to the fibers (stories) between us 🪢 and exploring how to make these threads of solidarity stronger

metabolizing! 🌱 the soil will decide if we continue

stirring relationship broth 🥣 learning from everyone I’m privileged to love

magic is joy in new shape ☁

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Offerings

Digital Design

Creating websites, visual branding, promotional materials, publications, social media content, video, audio, and animation for artists, academics, businesses, and organizations

Teaching, Facilitating, + Performing

Facilitating creative, healing, communal portals; teaching multimodal classes and workshops; performing poetry + rituals

Ancestor Work

Rooting liberation work and challenging cultural amnesia through holding space for ancestral research and reconnection

Handwork

Making one of a kind jewelry, clothes, quilts, altars, etc.

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Psychedelic Integration

Supporting your healing and bridging the material and spiritual through decolonial integration of altered states of consciousness

Energy Readings

Intuitive counsel through the chakra system +  archetypes

“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

See my treasure 👀

Photo by Wini Austin

“We must reclaim the word 'labor.' It means to give birth, which is creative, so reclaiming our labor is reclaiming our creativity — entering an embodied relationship with the earth.”

- Dr. Vandana Shiva

“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” — James Baldwin

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“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” — James Baldwin ❦

To RE-ANIMATE ourselves is to join the Free world!

“We have resorted to this very unfortunate word, "inanimate," and we imply to ourselves that stones, clouds, the ocean are inanimate, without anima, without soul, but it's all soul." — Pir Zia Inayat Khan

It's not a matter of IF collective liberation is possible but WHEN; the colonial mind has programed us to believe otherwise, but Freedom is swimming around us at all times. When we bump up against it, we feel tingles down our spines. It’s the way of life for everything parallel to humans.

The animator has an extended sense of space, an emotional awareness that reaches beyond the false border of skin. They have many non-human friends. In the cartoon world, everything is alive. In the cartoon world there is no ‘right’ way to move. There is no ‘right’ way to process or respond to the surrounding environment. In the cartoon world, every action is an experiment. In the cartoon world, you are not punished for your curiosity.

In the cartoon world, reality is fluid. Animism helps us see the world, ourselves, for what we are, un-objectifying ourselves in the process. To zoom out, to look beyond self, allowing a bit of your consciousness to leave, necessitates uncertainty and liminality. The animator sacrifices themself to come closer to the divine, Creation itself.

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Receive love letters to your home from Vero’s Cartoon World 💌

Add your address to my address book and you’ll get real life mail to hold in your own two hands!

We don’t have to be close friends to send mail. This is an experiment in weaving ideas and emotions across physical space/time. Share this link with anyone who would enjoy getting something tangible to hold.

Vero’s Cartoon World is where I go to feel, to write. It's a place where any emotion expressed creatively turns into ecstasy — where crying and laughing meet. Here I write from my entire being. When we write from our bodies not just our minds — we create space inside us for Freedom. So I write to stay alive, to metabolize.

I’m committed to writing as a medicine and practice of world building.

Address Book

"A rupture in experience,
illuminating boundaries
and the means to transcend them.
And with that
comes an understanding 
that we need not be
rendered inanimate,
and that empowered,
on our own two feet
we can step out
and look anew."

- Nick Sousanis, "Unflattening"