BASIMAH GOMEZ

Freelance Illustrator & Community Arts Coordinator
Sacramento, California

Curating micro-exhibitions for emerging Black artists.
Tending gardens along the American River Parkway.
Building tools that measure what feeds us.

SACRAMENTO SOIL FEAST CALCULATOR

Not a poem about scars—an interactive engine for the actual math of survival

Central Valley Grassland Acres (Q104715382)

USCS Soil Classification (Q905795)

Artists at Table

Hours of Labor Invested

Capsicum annuum Yield (Q1380) —

Turmeric-Smoked Paprika Blend Mass —

Broth Volume Required —

Nutrient Density Index —

Estimated Exhibition Days Fed —

Grounded in: California Central Valley grasslands (Q104715382) × Unified Soil Classification System (Q905795) × Capsicum annuum cultivation data (Q1380).

Formula: Yield = f(acres, soil_permeability, labor_hours, artist_metabolic_rate)

EMERGING BLACK ARTISTS ARCHIVE

Curated micro-exhibitions. Real people. Real work.
These are the names I'm feeding.

TBA — Sacramento Collective

Working with Capsicum annuum pigments and Central Valley clay. First exhibition: August 2026.

TBA — American River Series

Land acknowledgment through agricultural mapping. Soil samples as medium.

TBA — Turmeric & Iron Project

Exploring the chemistry of spice and steel. Performance art meets agronomy.

THE SOIL THAT HOLDS US

This is not metaphor. This is the Central Valley grassland ecosystem (Q104715382). This is the Unified Soil Classification System (Q905795) that engineers use to build roads, farmers use to plant seeds, and I use to calculate how many artists I can feed.

John Coltrane played changes over the same earth that grows these peppers.
Kendrick Lamar rapped over the same soil that holds our ancestors' bones.
Now we measure it. Now we multiply it.