For example, the works in her interdisciplinary project Whistling and
Language Transfiguration (WaLT)-- a vinyl record edition of a translation of Zapotec into whistling, sheet music of the transcription of the whistles into
musical notes, and a linguistic abacus to help mark verbal variations in the recorded translation — represent Porras - Kim's effort to maintain the viability of the Zapotec
language by pointing out its
unique qualities, and contribute to the preservation of a
language that was and is the cultural heritage of the Zapotec people.