Artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles started a skateboard brand alongside youth leaders on the San Carlos Apache reservation, a vehicle to share advice on cultivating resilience, creativity, and joy in an uncertain, polarized world.
“The Mystery of Now” is a “visual meditation about life on the Apache nation via lived experience of Apache Skateboards,” Miles says. “It’s a soulfully joyous glimpse into hard-edged lives of Native kids becoming artists, musicians, skaters, creatives, and leading in their community using art, music, and skateboarding as a means of expression and power."
Miles is one of many artists, cultural alchemists, and unapologetic joy creators who are stepping forward across cultures and ideologies to help make sense of what’s happening around us
