We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Paula Morales . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Paula below.

Hi Paula, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I have become my family archivist. For more than 20 years I have held on to stories and pieced them together to unveil my story. Through the use of traditional methods of investigation, interviews and energy work I have and continue to work on this window into who I continue to unveil.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Nestled in the highlands I had several opportunities to play and use creativity as a means to do so. My earliest memories include equating creativity to play, from climbing trees to painting and drawing. In my teenage years I began to be called to photography and started shooting music shows. This drove me to go down a path of documentary photography working with Red Cross international covering stories of the 36 year Guatemalan war. I became enthralled with storytelling

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I am aware that there is not only one lesson to unlearn, but many. We live in a post modern society that is vertical and binary. It is a society that is structured on colonial mentalities and oppressive structures, a system that only sees black and white and up and down. Being born human into this society I had to unlearn that and continue to do so. I had to embrace the ebbs and flows, the fluidity of life and its times and the understanding that there is not only one given way to be or to do. I show up with kindness and with an open heart ready to unlearn because learning can’t happen without it.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding of being an artist for me is being able to walk this path. I truly believe I didn’t chose this, I fell into alignment with it and it is part of my medicine. With this in mind I am to walk this path with pride and humility.     

Contact Info:

• Website: www.paula-morales.com
• Instagram: @kansilonem @paulamoralesstudio
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/moralespaula

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Paula Morales