Three Sisters (2023) is a collaboration with the young artists of Govalle
Elementary. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Govalle Elementary students made artwork with the guidance of their teacher, Ariel Kay, that expressed their desire for a better world. They created prints, collages, and zines that voiced the need for a healthy planet, racial equality, and better living conditions for all humans and animals. Emblazoned on the entrance to their school reads a mosaic, “plant seed of kindness,” a motto the students truly
embody. With this inspiration, Three Sisters, a mural on Bolm Road in Austin, Texas, was created.
Elementary. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Govalle Elementary students made artwork with the guidance of their teacher, Ariel Kay, that expressed their desire for a better world. They created prints, collages, and zines that voiced the need for a healthy planet, racial equality, and better living conditions for all humans and animals. Emblazoned on the entrance to their school reads a mosaic, “plant seed of kindness,” a motto the students truly
embody. With this inspiration, Three Sisters, a mural on Bolm Road in Austin, Texas, was created.
Three Sisters represents the indigenous gardening system of planting squash, corn, and beans together. Using this method, the qualities of each plant serve the other, protecting each other from pests and sun and nourishing the soil. As a metaphor for community, Three Sisters features imagery of plants and people existing inharmony, and the motto “plant seeds of kindness” as a nod to the community that exists both at Govalle Elementary and the Govalle neighborhood as a whole.
