Future flowers will have been flooded with cortisol and the fruits of strife will be sweeter for it.

Like fewer generations before, we consistently seem to be living from precipice to the next, but the dizzying height can also provide a perspective like no other, as we gaze down and dissect the layers of rock and soil we sand on, that unfold like pages of history.

Nuestros Propios Jardines (/NWEHS-tros PROH-pee-os har-DEE-nes/), Spanish for Our Own Gardens, is interdisciplinary artist Michael Anthony García’s newest body of work centered around the ideas of finding his own nurturing, patience, and empowerment in times of difficulty.

The work uses sculpture/installation, photography/video, digital collage, seriography and poetry as a means of using one’s own experience to research strength, path and community using an emotional detritus of the moment we are living through.

Resilience is born from nature, and in returning to its example, we can try and err and try again, until we are able to sustain ourselves and thrive through strife.

Bio

Multidisciplinary artist & independent curator Michael Anthony García, claiming both Mexican and US citizenship, is based in Austin, Texas, and predominantly focuses his practice around photography/ video, sculpture/ installation & performance. He is a founding member of Los Outsiders curatorial collective & has curated large-scale exhibitions of international artists, in & out of the US. Notably, he has had solo curatorial projects for Mexic-arte Museum, Texas State University Galleries, the gallery at the Austin Central Public Library and Fusebox Festival. He participated in the2011 Texas Biennial & has won awards both for his curatorial & 3D work. He co-hosts an intersectional conversation podcast named El Puente and is publisher for POCa Madre Magazine. García has premiered work for The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Experimental Action Performance Art Biennale in Houston, The Contemporary Austin, SoundSpace at the Blanton Museum of Art, El Museo de la Ciudad de México, and ThreeWalls in Chicago.