What is Sacred Heart?
Medium: Animation
Animation Design and Art: Blake Lavia & Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo
Animation Graphics: Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo
Music and Sound Effects: Blake Lavia
Year: 2023
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I collaborated with Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo, under the Talking Rivers, Inc. umbrella, to make this short animation.
Sacred Contract is a fundamental shift in our cultural and legal relationship with the earth in which we emancipate ourselves and the earth from an ownership relationship to a sacred relationship. How will this be done? Sacred contract will enable private property owners to voluntarily dissolve private ownership rights, restore the rights of nature and create sustaining ecological and cultural guardianship of the transformed titles.
CELDF's Rights of Nature Logo
Medium: watercolor and pen on hot press cotton paper
Year: 2022
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I designed this logo for CELDF for their Rights of Nature program. The logo design wanted to combine the natural world with the court system, to remind the viewer that the two can coexist in harmony, and that laws can protect nature.
Food Sovereignty in Akwesasne
Medium: Digital Video
Directed and Edited: Blake Lavia & Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo
Year: 2022
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This video is part of a series of five videos I collaboratively produced, under the Talking Wings umbrella, for the Climate Solutions Exhibition at the Wild Center. Members of the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) community of Ahkwesáhsne (also known as Akwesasne) discuss the importance of food sovereignty, and how Indigenous agricultural practices are a vital climate solution.
Desegregating the Wild
Medium: Digital Video
Directed and Edited: Blake Lavia & Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo
Year: 2021
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Under the Talking Wings umbrella I collaborated with ADI to share their story and mission: ensure a vital and sustainable Adirondack Park for future generations. We created a series of videos, documenting ADI's life-changing programs in action.
In the first video, we meet Nicky Hylton-Patterson, the Executive Director of ADI, and learn how ADI is creating the next generation of BIPOC Adirondack Stewards.
To watch the other videos follow this link.