Natalie Majaba Waldburger

Through an anthropomorphic lens, Natalie considers how the distribution of spores converges with human narratives of movement and migration.  This biologically-informed comparison evokes “invasion” nomenclatures used to describe waves of immigration, the historical strategies of colonization through cultural appropriation and erasure, and the injection of cultural specificity to domestic spaces and familial relationships.  The resilience of spores and their hidden proliferation in the ecologies of domestic spaces evoke the haunted presence of cultural longing and displacement caused by the diasporic experience.