Visual Art
Alexia’s work blends realism with dreamscapes as an act of reflection, imagination, and world-building toward decolonial futures. Rooted in childhood stories of tree spirits, ancestral lands, and plant medicine, her practice explores the entanglements of colonization, land dispossession, Indigenous knowledge systems, ancestral memory, and collective liberation.
Through painting, collage, and mixed media, Alexia creates visual languages that move between the seen and unseen, where memory, spirit, and political realities converge. Her work is informed by environmental justice organizing and popular education, treating art as both a site of inquiry and a tool for resistance. By drawing on Indigenous cosmologies and diasporic experience, she challenges colonial narratives of land and belonging, reclaiming culture, story, and ecological relationship as practices of healing.
Alexia’s art functions as a space to remember what has been fractured and to imagine what can be build.
Ancestral Dreams of Sika Deer
In 1624, the Dutch East India Company colonized Formosa in order to trade with the Ming Empire, the Takugawa Shogunate, and intercept Portuguese and Spanish colonial activities in East Asia. Shortly after, the Dutch realized the potential of the vast herds of the native Formosan sika deer. During the six decades of Dutch activity two to four million sika skins were exported. In 1969 the last known wild sika was killed. Five decades later, I had a dream where I followed a Formosan sika deer and its heart to reconnect with my culture. This is the beginning.
Acrylic On Wood
two 18 X 24 inches panels
Featured:
Rituals presented by OF COLOR and the City of Austin
People’s Gallery, Austin City Hall
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.”
