Jami Porter Lara, Lee Francis IV, Patrick Nagatani

Air Date Saturday July 6 at 4pm on 5.1

JAMI PORTER LARA

New Mexico ceramicist Jami Porter Lara sees her work as reverse archeology.

“Part of my interest here is in looking differently at the plastic bottle so that we might be able to see the human creativity that goes into it as opposed to simply regarding it as waste.”

“INDIGENERD” LEE FRANCIS IV

Laguna Pueblo’s self-proclaimed Indigenerd, Lee Francis IV, helped establish Albuquerque’s Indigenous Comic-Con and believes in the importance of story and Indigenous superheroes.

“That’s why the stories are important – because they are how we continue to exist as who we are, as individuals and as a collective.”

PATRICK NAGATANI

Albuquerque photographer Patrick Nagatani talks about fiction and truth.

“My sensibility has always been that photographs actually lie. They tell stories and it all depends on how you construct the image.”