Skye Park Tausig is an artist-writer and arts worker in the Los Angeles (Tongva) area, with roots in the Sunshine Coast (Tla’amin Nation) and New England (Pawtucket) regions. She is currently the Co-Organizer of Now Be Here, an LA-based organization supporting women and non-binary visual artists via an online directory and public programming. Skye is also part of the team at Modern For All, a restoration workshop and design studio focused on preserving and contextualizing vintage modern furniture and design.

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
— Walter Benjamin