[Small is All]

Small is All is a creative reflection on adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. This project focuses on lessons about (decentralized) organizing and community building that can be found in nature by drawing parallels between the roles of "small" and - to all appearances - insignificant decomposers, to the importance of small actions within healthy movements. Using Land and fungi (whose relationship to the forest is crucial to sustaining a healthy ecosystem) as subjects, Small is All emphasizes the importance of interdependent relationships in system wide transformation and bringing about change to larger social systems & structures. 

This project was a culminating project for the Indigenous Southeast Asian Rad Reading Group, a Cold Rice Collaborative (CRC) program. After completing a reading, participants do a creative reflection on lessons, ideas, and takeaways. Creative reflections range from visual art, written pieces, and simple verbal reflections. 

 The CRC is a multifaceted, project-based collaborative and an ever-evolving creative community and platform committed to uplifting the narratives and experiences of Indigenous Southeast Asian (ISEA) peoples of diaspora. Click below to learn more.