Welcome to El Yupanki
Hello there.
Welcome to my little piece of the bloggerverse. I’m hoping to use this space to occasionally build and connect with a community around shared interests between us. Happy to have you here.
A bit about myself, I’m a musician, artist, and writer based in the Sourlands of New Jersey. Most of my creative efforts revolve around a conceptual music project I started in 2021, Yupanki, a story currently centered around a lost time migrant in search of home. And by day, I work in the Fine Arts field.
I’m US-born to Peruvian immigrants, and spent many years from youth to adulthood navigating attempts to find a space where I could “belong.” Which is where everything I do stems from - continuously exploring the phenomena of migration, assimilation vs. integration, erasure, the fortitude of indigenous cultures, the politicization (and weaponizing, and militarizing) of invisible lines called Borders, among other facets of movement.
It’s no secret that nationalism, xenophobia, racism, classism, and a warped sense of patriotism fuels much of our contemporary dialogue on migration, which leads to systemic failures of policy that further us from real solutions that could lead the US towards being the beacon of hope that people gravitate towards. Unfortunately that beacon seems to be more of an idea than a practice, especially seeing the US’s involvement in global conflicts. But I do have hopes in the possibility of a better inclusive future given the relentlessness of people organizing to question and keep these powers in check.
I am a bit terrible with scheduling production of “content” because the idea of commodifying one’s creative pursuits in such a way that it reduces it to a schedule just isn’t my thing. I used to have my work spread across a few platforms and am trying to consolidate into one space so that it doesn’t require me to remember so many logins, and that the receiver of whatever I’m offering doesn't need multiple accounts to get to everything. The internet and social media themselves are exhausting, let alone keeping up with daily life. But I’m trying to see this space as more of a longer form glimpse into whatever I’m working on creatively. Hopefully that means I’ll be inclined to keep up with this.
I’ll be sharing:
poems
micro fictions
artwork experiments
sound sketches
works in progress
occasional musings
Feel free to reach out and say hello.
Until next time.
