Angel Idowu | July 12, 2021 7:44 pm
During the pandemic, El Paseo Community Garden served as a home away from home for many people. Now with the city back open once again, garden leadership is looking at how they can better utilize the space to serve the community that surrounds it.
“It’s a physical place of abundance where so many people are caretaking together,” said artist-in-residence Marcella Torres, who is bringing people together for a new project at El Paseo.
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“Earlier in the year, I was working on this project on Mesoamerican afterlife,” Torres said. “Thinking about how do we think about life and death as continuous? After COVID, we’re thinking about a lot about grieving, and how is this a process that is cultural and specific to a group of people, but also gives moments of celebration and joy. We’re making a tobacco garden and then having these ceramic vessels and ritual offering spaces. There’s also an adobe brick monument where people can sit and meditate. This is the place we go to process life and death and be with our ancestors.”