Garden City by Sol Patches

Sol Patches (they/them) presents Garden City, a love letter written in music for trans
people, we who dream and live to unlearn- creating in a field that denies our very
existence. Sol Patches was born on the southside, raised partially on the westside, and has
family roots in Cabrini Green. Part of their mission is a wide implementation of their
stories to interrogate streamlined conversations of difference, while rooted in care,
compassion, and critical theory. The social structures that are prescribed to the black
body trans body tire Patches deeply. Garden City simultaneously specifies and abstracts
the black trans body, a body often lost in violent translations. The investments made
towards this projects are decidedly not capital. No income was involved, instead, a
chosen family is responsible. Garden City marinates on this idea of chosen family, how
each member’s hearts sound, how their love feels. Love letters are really just letters with
a lot of love in them. Garden City is a love letter, and an inhalation. A testimony and a
critical reading that tracks Patches’ experience riding a line at which fire is at peace with
the dark. We pass through empty lots, where the grass was left unbothered, where the
abandoned buildings tumble, where empty bottles glisten, where the kids played hide and
seek, and where law enforcement hid around the block. Garden City is for those Gardens,
a project that encompasses all these sightings and is in constant TRANsition. We want to
welcome you to experience it.

They/She

Sound Worker

trans-woman
Experimental Audio Production
rapper, phd candidate, noise music. and more.

IG: @solcabrini

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