Stringing together the many secrets that have failed to actually be kept secret in my family, I both create and examine my family’s web of secrecy, shame and lies. I embark on a voyage to unearth more points of connection within this web to make sense of my family’s intergenerational trauma that is housed within these secrets and within my body. My body is a house divided by the two ethnicities that reside within it: my white paternal heritage and my maternal Latine heritage. 

A visual and auditory representation of the cellular function of epigenetic markings, the germline that connects us to our ancestors and the experience of having your body taken over by sudden, unexpected trauma responses. I use pre-recorded conversations with my family mixed with live vocals looped in real time on stage. 

At the core of this piece is the universality of trauma responses that connect humans across time, space and consciousness and the silent yet aggressive collision of free will and genetic predetermination.