An Aberrational Poetics…is Art 25’s debut exhibition, as commissioned by Smithsonian Asian Pacific America Center for ‘Ae Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence, a pop-up museum at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

The large-scale, interactive installation comments on the effects of centuries of forced colonial practices upon the CHamoru artistic community and explores the means by which modern CHamoru art practitioners glean cultural knowledge in spite of displacement politics that have and continue to divide communities. Via interactive, somatic poetry experiences, the project encourages audience interaction with living plants grown in a space infused with creative energy, with the purpose of transferring that energy to the land in which they were eventually planted, further reinforcing the ideas of Indigenous art practices and their contributions to—not in isolation from— the land from which they are inspired and fed.