I'm Avery Miller, I'm a Mexican American (Chicano) multi medium artist born in Seattle but spent most of my childhood in the midwest. I'm currently attending IU Bloomington as I work towards my BFA in photography. My work is my own therapeutic process in dealing with the feelings I have inside me about myself, my communities, and the world around me. The pieces and body of work I produce are simply a vessel of that process, each of them holding a little piece of me inside. The work I make is intuitive, keeping me from tying myself down to just one medium, but photography has always been my go to. My process of making is very tied to my own spiritual practices, connecting me to the lands I have and have yet to occupy. My work tells the story of my life, which one day will be my only proof to the world that I once was alive before being returned to the universe. The process of working into the earth being my only proof of the lands I once occupied. My work reconnects me to my ancestors, learning the culture they left behind for me and celebrating the lives they've lived. It reconnects me to my community learning parts of my culture that have been lost being removed from my maternal ancestral homeland. It celebrates the culture I live with and the things I learn about it along the way. And it's a point of representation for me and anyone living or dead who has a similar background as me.