Inter/Relational Artist & Cultural Producer.

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• Playing with Ua Si Creative

• Move resources like the Waterers

• Features on Springboard Exchange and Go Mag - 100 Women We Love

I create from where indigenous technologies are futurism. Here, community, place, and materials become co-authors: their presence makes the work possible as much as their absence is felt. Through kinship, my practice facilitates object-making, environments, and experiences that ground the senses in the immediate while holding the limitless reachable, arriving softly and staying long.

In the HMong lineage, “art,” “futurism,” “indigeneity,” and “queerness” are inter/cosmological ways of knowing, far too expansive for a single word. They carry the spirit for how we exist, create, and play. The work materializes this through slow form, reciprocal ritual, and ancestral creation.

I retrace the body as a living archive. As a child of refugees and an immigrant, HMong dressmaking encodes what language cannot always name and protect: it is carried in the flesh when everything else is taken. What is perceived as cloth against the skin becomes garments for invisible geographies, reorienting our center. Objects migrate between sites and projects, reflecting their agency from and relation to human transmission and self-determination, each defying b/order, distance, and time.

In a world that demands everything, the work asks for a different kind of presence. To suspend long enough to hear — and believe — this capacity within. It is from that place that we begin to dream worlds not yet visible but already felt.

Ka is co-founder of Ua Si Creative, HMong artist collective, and an artist career consultant with Springboard for the Arts. They completed an MFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design (2026) and have received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the American Craft Council Emerging Artist Cohort.

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