Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

In a Minnesota suburb where my friendliest neighbour’s attempt at my name emerges as an unsteady Mu-ga-mba, I can finally sit down long enough to remind my children that the t in water has a sound like all letters are supposed to. The e at the end of kale, the i in mukwai, ß in abantu.