rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, kinship, colonization, and the disrupted genealogies it produces. Trained as a painter, but often using live performance as his main medium, esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and what he calls (non)documentation to investigate and expose ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives, history, and social environments. esparza’s recent projects are grounded in laboring with land and adobe-making, a skill learned from his father, Ramón Esparza. Adobe has become a signature symbolic and material part of esparza’s practice. Still prevalent across the Southwest, sundried adobe is traditionally made by hand with dirt and other organic material such as clay, horse dung, hay, and water. It is remarkably durable and among the earliest architectural foundations for indigenous communities of the Americas. esparza explores adobe as both material and politics, creating what he terms “brown architecture” in response to the hegemony of whiteness that art institutions have reproduced historically and in the present. In so doing, the artist invites Brown and Queer cultural producers to realize large-scale collective projects, gathering people together to build networks of support outside of traditional art spaces.