Erina C Alejo

Erina C Alejo is an artist, researcher, and third-generation San Francisco renter whose works respond to care, community action, and cultural preservation.
Plants serve as windows to our collective wellness and anti-displacement resilience. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, San Franciscans began sheltering-in-place on March 16, 2020: households are in close quarters with their roommates, family members, existential thoughts, essential items, and house plants. In the Excelsior, Mission, and South of Market districts where Black, brown, and immigrant families have built histories over a century, we ask this simple question
Alejo on guitar and artist Marcus Noceda at yucca, 2020. Photo: Lian Ladia.

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