Ali Van | Founding Guide
A mossy clue, of peaceful constellations. Ali is a dictionary in the darkness, offering mature visions on what has come to texture feeling and time. She is first contact to new, necessary, and expansive definitions toward the pursuit of living. Through favourite things and beings of value, Ali is an ally in the act of making yourself heard. Both seed and sense for a.f.t. and its offspring, she is the first bloom but not the only fruit, a presence for breathing transformation.
Between meadows on a Hebridean line Ali finds motility in the fullness of every day. Parceling true with make-believe, she moves with family precedence, cooking to convey all things left behind. To sustain in place a long poem grows, hands mooring heart to temple peat of conference, colour, listening, and design. Alongside a.f.t., she settles into life song with a nest of timely spirits, with AX Archive, UNEMENU, a Garden Society advisory, and in host of attunements sharing sprite with soul.
Miranda ZYVB | Spirit Consul
A stone. A weaving antidote. An eternal friend and a wellness to where. Steadfast with spirit, Miranda propels to ground sense, to freeing sensational stars. Balancing layers of light, her voice intends and extends to dance, matter, and memory. Her glow reaches places she has yet to visit and her heart springs forth with action, togetherness, and a love for life.
Miranda is currently making her home on Lenape Land, in what is colonially known as Bedstuy, New York City. Alongside a.f.t., she sings with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, and is studying Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science. Miranda is usually to be found at home, gardening, with little brown dog, Mushu, often in tow. At different points, Miranda's homes have been with the communities of Dirt Palace Public Projects, No Más Muertes, the Bread & Puppet Theater, and in Hong Kong Standard Time (GMT+8).
Ambika Miglani | Code Envoy
A ring retreat, with family orientation. Ready to define boundary and beauty, Ambika reveals a gentle majesty. An independent keep of space and distance, she travels with warmth and feistiness, and an honest third eye. Riding the internal and external, she stitches between forest and ether, a clear ground for the stars. With small hands she creates ripples, meandering through the familiar and unknown.
Ambika navigates her world through sound, light, and laughter -- observing, recording, and letting them form memories. Her work has moved from the visual, to the auditory, to the spatial, as she constantly weaves between worlds. She is informed by forms created by and around nature, and is studying how these structures build lives. Alongside a.f.t., holding space for home is currently guiding her practice, as she delves into whatever medium can bring her closer to it. She is currently cataloguing field recordings of sound in public space, appreciating ambient sounds and even silence as much as she does music.