Taya Pocock — Director, Co-Creator & Project Lead

Taya Pocock is a Tucson-based media artist, documentary filmmaker, and nonprofit founder whose practice spans documentary film, virtual reality, and immersive experiential media. Her work centers on cultural memory, environmental storytelling, and human connection — using intimate narrative and immersive technology to build empathy across cultural and generational divides.

Her credits include virtual reality experiences produced for Amnesty International through Panomatics VR, the multimedia documentary Truth to Power for Rock the Vote (2016), and interactive media work for the Imaginary Foundation. She has been an invited panelist at SXSW on interactive media and cultural storytelling. She is also the founder of Humanity 360, a nonprofit that brings compassion-based education to Tucson Unified School District schools through documentary film and interactive media.

24 Squared Revisited is Taya's feature documentary debut. As Geoff Pocock's daughter and the primary custodian of the archival materials from the 1976 installation, she is the creative and logistical force behind the project — overseeing documentary direction, installation co-design, fundraising, permitting, and community engagement. Her method is inseparable from her intention: to document is to participate; to bear witness is to transform.

Charity MacDonald — Co-Creator & Installation Artist

Charity MacDonald is a Navajo sculptor, installation artist, and filmmaker whose practice spans performance installation, documentary film, and multimedia work. Raised in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo reservation, she studied sculpture and installation art at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received a digital video production certification through the continuing education division of New York University. She is the youngest of the five children of former Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald.

Her career has taken her from New York City — where she worked across film, fashion, and the arts, including for NYC Opera, Prada USA, Ann Inc., and as a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts — to international stages, including performance installations in Moscow featured in Interview Magazine and a panel address at a World Peace Conference in Hiroshima, Japan alongside Nobel Laureates and Prime Ministers. She is a Director Special Recognition award winner at the San Francisco Shorts Film Festival (2007).

In recent years, Charity has returned to the Navajo Nation, where she has worked with the office of Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and continues to deepen her connection to her community, culture, and land. She is also a direct descendant of Navajo Code Talker Peter MacDonald, Sr.

Charity's role in 24 Squared Revisited is not consultancy — she is a full co-creator with equal creative authority over the land art installation. Her involvement transforms the project from a recreation into an act of genuine cross-cultural dialogue and shared artistic stewardship.

Geoff Pocock (1946–2019) — Original Artist

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British Sculptor, Land Art Pioneer, and Visionary of Geometric Abstraction

Geoff Pocock was a British-born artist whose bold and contemplative work explored the intersections of geometry, color, and spiritual resonance. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City in the 1970s, Pocock was deeply shaped by the rise of the Environmental and Land Art movements. His monumental 1976 installation 12 Renditions of 24 Squared, created in the iconic landscape of Monument Valley with formal permission from Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald, reflected a profound engagement with nature, minimalism, and the passage of time.

Pocock's artistic practice spanned painting, sculpture, experimental theater, and literature. He was known for his distinctive Geometrics — multi-layered, freehand compositions employing optical patterning, subtle tonal contrasts, and spiritual symbolism, drawing equally from modernist abstraction and Eastern philosophy. Throughout his career, he exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, collaborated with avant-garde performance groups, and published poetry and prose.

His work was largely unseen during his lifetime. 24 Squared Revisited is, in part, a daughter's act of bringing her father's most ambitious work into the world — and a testament to the enduring power of a single creative act made in solitude, in a vast and ancient landscape, witnessed by almost no one.