 A Living Room on Roosevelt is a public art project that engages local community in conversations about issues of community safety as connected to immigration, displacement, and policing. And we're having those conversations in a living room installation that was inspired by my living room growing up. The project is also a collaborative effort with Queens Neighborhoods United, which is a local grassroots organization that works around issues of criminalization and displacement and jacket heist. Living with Roe on the project has been an amazing experience and it has actually taught me a lot about my own community and talking to individuals about the topics that we have at hand. I've actually gotten to hear from the community stories and experiences of the topics so that way we can use in a research project that we're doing about Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights and Corona. I am a self-taught multidisciplinary artist. I work in mixed media, collage, installation, photography, and writing and a lot of my practice has to do with investigating memory and intimacy, especially in relation to place, history, and trauma. We shouldn't be ashamed to talk about these subjects like immigration, displacement, and policing. We're able to talk about it in public. I think that makes people feel like they're part of a community. A lot of the pieces that are part of the installation really just were inspired by me sitting in my mom's living room and me looking at a lot of the small details and really acknowledging the labor and the creativity and intention that my mom put into those things. The record collection is actually also, it's not my mom's but it's my stepdad and my uncle's. They passed away a while ago but they lived in the same apartment that I grew up in so it's like bringing more of my family history into the space. One of the most important lessons that I've learned with my work with the LPA is that our communities are already rich with creativity and by bringing this living room installation into a public setting, we're asserting that a lot of our everyday spaces are already places for creativity and for connection.