A conversation with the artist Pao Houa Her and exhibition curators Victoria Sung and Matthew Villar Miranda in celebration of the opening of Pao Houa Her: Paj qaum ntuj / Flowers of the Sky.

The exhibition centers the experiences of Hmong Americans in the Mount Shasta region of Northern California, a much-contested landscape that has in recent years become the site of considerable subsistence agriculture and cannabis cultivation. Through her large-format photographs of the surrounding landscape, Her’s work lends a poetic dignity and bodily reality to the community’s on-the-ground experience.