A good film era right here:
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry it On
and there is more from the film backlogs,
but if anything can always start with: The Unknown Saint
Author Archives: sarabellacostumes
Tailored Times
Yearly reunion, eight years strong, new starts with tight strings. Todo gracias.
Appreciate these guys for their support, knowledge, and friendship:
Bolsa
This bolsa was weaved by the Arhuacos women who carry this ancient practical art. Throughout the country of Colombia you will find a majority of people wearing these bolsas to support and celebrate the indigenous heritage. This bolsa shown above comes from a pyramidal region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta where the Arhuacos, Wiwas, Koguis, and Wayuu tribes are located.
I had the chance to speak to artist Rick Harlow who help found the Elders projects that continues with Earth Action.
Harlow also referred his friend Wayne Davis who wrote an ode to the tribes by recording their history of the rivers in his “Magdelena: River of Dreams – A Story of Colombia“. In 2013 when graduating from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise LA and dealing with a break-up I stumbled on my first Gabo book, “100 years of Solitude” and Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.” Both books recorded ethereal tales that Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Chinua Achebe rebirthed for me the sacred life experience while they both passed that year.
Fast forward to now where continued vileness and destruction steam on that anything YOU can do to help the green temples that hold the heart of the world survive would be appreciated. Amazon Frontlines is one of the accessible forms to start. If you are in Los Angeles you can view my ancestors gold wax work at LACMA’s portable universe or ask the MET to return the many stolen artifacts.
After my recent visit to Bogota seeing the encampments of the Embera tribes protesting in the capital demanding the end to the violence of colonialism in the duero Choco regions makes it clear that pushing families out their homelands that they have spent eras nurturing should not be allowed in this time.
I understand what it means to pushed out of a homeland, to lose your language but not the roots, to constantly fight for respect to have a chance to live. Starting wherever you are located you can help your community region environmentally and unite to connect it back to all.
Carry the bolsa –
Gay Gingko Grows
All handmade gingko leaves made for the 2022 Summer Queer Ecologies art showcase collaboration with Bartram’s Garden and William Way Community Center. Gingko trees have been around since the Jurassic era, survived fires after the 1920s Tokyo earthquake as well as survived the atomic bombs of Hiroshima. Gingko trees have no trouble living in urban environments, supply medicinal remedies, make good bookmarks that protect books from silverfish and booklice. Queerness is embodied in nature and also remains resilient like the Gingko trees no matter the current colonial human created crisis. The variety of gay flags with beaded details are the seeds for the opportunity to grow in a respected environment. This is Gay Gingko Grows.
Queer Ecologies – Virtual Archive
Garment Worker Center – Los Angeles
GWC helped me navigate LA work and continues to protect, connect, and celebrate talented workers. Support garment makers labor :
DTLA petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYvqIFvL42v_WPNZ_zZY1dEI1487qYyHWwe8NXLI88MGmH7A/viewform
The Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institional Change – FABRIC Act 2022
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/pass-fabric-act
Saludes
Cicada Rhythm
Summer Hats
Colibri Mask
Artwork to experience
Purchase now my artworks that can hang up on the wall, coasters for your coffee, food prep on, send out cards, bath mat accessible, fanny pack for your outdoor adventures and much more at Society6!
https://society6.com/sarabellatailor
Photographs Refocused
The last two years been working on paintings that draw and weave in photos taken by my great grandmother. The photos were taken in 1911-1915 within the vicinity of Texas towns of Marfa, Presidio, Laredo to Rios Concha and Grande, Arroya Cibilo, Ojinaga of Chihuahua – Mexico.
SARABELLA ROCHA 
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