In Which We Fly, and Suri Plays

Suri and I, in the sky, but also on a plane. She in her game 🎮, me crashed, long flight ✈️. My BFF Akiyo picked us up at the airport, hugs, 🍜 🍱, and I turned her into an animation ➡️

In Which We Are Colored, Literally

The Color Museum was confetti, silent disco, balls, a pool of balls. We had fun.

In Which We Jam, With Brains

Brain Jam, a gathering, but also a challenge. Seventy-plus creators, organizers, jury members, and us. Rules spoken, but also understood. (I was sooo jet-lagged.)

We were six creators, and we had one question: how to go beyond what we know, what we’ve been told? How to self-represent in ways not written, not drawn, but felt?

In Which We Work, With Aunt Victoria in my ❤️

Aunt Victoria, my aunt but also a guide. A 70-year-old Quechua woman that lives in Tiupampa, understanding the world in her way, our way. Only she can tell her own story. A prototype to give her a tool, to represent her world, her words, her emotions, tangible. It was 27 hours, 6 creators, we created 12 worlds of pure self-representation.

In Which We Struggle, But Also Create

It was hard. Creation without formulas, without patterns. A vertical way of thinking had to turn on its feet, but also a circular, spiral, zigzag way. We took our grandmother’s wisdom as a starting point.

In Which We Win, But Also Learn

An Innovation Award at Brain Jam 2023. A victory, but also a lesson. Not about what we created, but what others can create from it. A tool, but also a gift.

Days later, Brian and I presented our work publicly at Games For Change, Microsoft offices in Downtown NY. I remember the ninja turtle billboards from the window. You can actually experience the project her🤖

In Which We Reflect, But Also Invite

This is a journey with Suri, with Aunt Victoria, with my grandma Herminia, with you. It’s an adventure, but also a dance.

It’s a question, but also an offering.

Join me in this, and let’s imagine a future, a present, a past that’s more than what we see. A world that’s ours, but also everyone’s.