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“The Mojave Desert’s dry washes are the tide pools of our ancestral landscape, full of life and the collision of water, stone, and sand. In Chemehuevi origin stories, the land was born from the body of the female Creator . . . We emerge from our cultural landscapes and are forever found within, inseparable from our homelands.”
This photograph depicts Sheridan Silversmith (Chemehuevi); it was taken in a wash in the Mojave Desert. This image speaks to the inseparability of Indigenous people from the landscapes that they come from. It also grounds our understanding of that landscape as being made from the body of woman.
—Cara Romero