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Estraven Lupino-Smith is a queer and trans non-binary artist, born in Dish with One Spoon Territory to an Italian and Scottish family. Their work is informed by their curiosity and critical engagements with human interactions in varied environments: natural, cultural, and constructed. Their interdisciplinary practice involves sound, sculpture, video, and other various forms of installation in partnership with research and writing. They are specifically interested in investigating ecologies, conceptions of the wild, race and whiteness, gender, social and cultural normativities, ancestral stories and skills, and movements for justice and self-determination. Over the course of their training they have refined their understanding of the spatial dynamics of movement building, critical natural histories, and the ideas of imagined geographies. Being an artist and a geographer are two parts of their broader practice engaged with political ecology, queer theory, and creative production, firmly rooted in decolonial methodologies.