Waiting for the Cactus to Bloom is a quiet, experimental solo performance that stages the tension between becoming and inheritance—between one’s emerging longings and evolving sense of self, and the expectations passed down through family, history, and structures that shape what feels possible.

 

Drawn from the artist's personal archive, including an unexpected letter gifted by her mother on her eighteenth birthday, the work refuses abstraction. It invites the audience to encounter a single life and body as a site where broader social and structural forces quietly operate, shaping the contours of a life. 

 

By resisting speed and spectacle, Waiting for the Cactus to Bloom creates the conditions for stillness, dreaming, and collective imagination. It gently disrupts a culture of urgency, ushering the audience into shared contemplation. 

 

Structured through improvisation, the performance unfolds differently each time it is performed. 

 

It asks: What do we do with what remains of our histories and inheritances? What do we keep, and what must we release or transform? How do we metabolize what we inherit without reproducing its harms? And how do we stay present long enough for something new to take root?