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"Heart of the Desert"
Reader
Ortega, Amber Lee
Citation

Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4 - August 31, 2024.

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bilingual
o'odham language
desert
landscape
lineage
survival
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"Heart of the Desert"

Reader
Ortega, Amber Lee
Citation

Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4 - August 31, 2024.

Tags
bilingual, o'odham language, desert, landscape, lineage, survival
Reading
The Place Where Clouds Are Formed - April 4, 2024
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwider wears red lipstick, a floral, black lace shirt, and circular earrings. She stands next to her photographs framed on a dark gray wall, one of which features a desert landscape with a white horse, and another with a boy with closed eyes against a blue sky and mesquite leaves.
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
Amber Lee Ortega wears a purple headscarf with a multicolored, floral print, as well as glasses, turquoise earrings, a black printed shirt, and a light blue button-down. She looks at her photographs framed on a dark gray wall, one of which features a desert landscape with saguaro cactus, and another that centers three people in a house.
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
Martín Zícari, Gareth Smit, and Ofelia Zepeda stand next to each other for a group photo. Zícari wears a beige and white plaid shirt with a blue, pink, and yellow sewn-on heart patch. Smit wears a blue and white striped button-down. Zepeda wears a white and beige button-down, black cardigan, and a long necklace with a tan circular pendant. They all stand before a gray brick wall.
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
Ofelia Zepeda wears a white collared shirt with beige stripes and a black cardigan. She stands in front of a tree under partial sunlight.
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela

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