With a community of grievers and dreamers, we are building a ship in the New Mexico desert. A vessel for navigating the emotional landscapes of grief, memory, and longing.

Part sculpture, part sanctuary, the Of Grief & Dreams ship offers a tangible space for anyone to come and navigate the shores of their sorrow, and be invited to imagine their most sacred dreams.

Of Grief & Dreams is a project envisioned for both individual and communal healing. It is rooted in the belief that grief is not something to be “moved past,” but something to be moved with. It honors the quiet, often unspoken grief that lives within us—the personal and collective losses we carry—and asks:

What can our dreams teach us about survival? About hope? About love? 

It invites us to consider how grief shapes our lives, and how our dreams—fragile, sacred, persistent—can carry us forward.

When completed, this ship will welcome people aboard to engage in transformative experiences: rituals, reflection, and creative expression that allow them to honor their sorrow while giving reverence to their most sacred dreams.

Each person’s dream becomes part of a living archive—a shared repository of longing, love, and resilience. Together, these dreams create a collective record: a body of memory, resistance, and radical hope. A testament to the truth that grief and dreaming not only coexist—they must. And together, they form a map forward.

This is work rooted in acknowledgment: the toll that grief takes on our bodies, our hearts, and our collective spirit. But it is also rooted in resistance. We aim to map the emotional terrain we’re navigating—not only the places of pain, but also the places where hope still lives. This work does not offer solutions to grief. Instead, it offers space. Witnessing.

We are mapping emotional territory. Naming what we carry. And reminding ourselves—and one another—that even as we grieve, we can still reach toward what is beautiful, necessary, and worth fighting for.

This project celebrates dreaming itself as a sacred form of resilience. A tender, defiant act of survival.

A ship as a bridge. A safe passage between sorrows, through grief, toward hope—across worlds.