2025
I create artworks that examine cultural memory loss from the process of colonial extractivism and displacement and how that has impacted perceptions of identity, heritage, and place-making. I examine the subjectivity of personhood through what it means to be in relationship to place through materiality, process, and technique and the complexity of memory. I utilize textile and fiber mediums to reconstruct narratives of cultural displacement to investigate fiber objects’ interrelation of living beings and place and the body in relation to this phenomenon. I approach making as a co-creation led through ceremony and ritual in collaboration with the natural world and the connection of ethnobotanical, sociopolitical, and human perspectives. Connecting deeply to heart and nature as a pathway to healing I am interested in supporting ancestral remembrance as a conduit to truth and wholeness. With personal experience as a disabled Mexican American who grew up with family incarceration and an immigrant father, I exist in the liminal space as a person of color of mixed ethnicity and examine systemic and racial injustice created by environments of inequity in the diaspora. With a focus on material, my practice aims to approach these topics and that which grows around us. In working symbiotically and with reciprocity we preserve the greatest tradition and restore what was lost through resistance.
"In Remembrance of this Vessel" Anthotype of homegrown Hopi Sunflower seed naturally dyed silk using 35 mm bw photograph resist and text overlay.
"In Memory of this Vessel" 35 mm bw film self portrait print with text on transparent film overlay.
"Chinga La Migra" (front) cotton naturally dyed with horseweed, eco printed with found metal, cempazuchitl, tickseed, redbud, and grape leaves harvested and found in commune with Mother's Milk residency on the land that they inhabit, silk dyed with Osage Orange, cotton string dyed with homegrown Hopi black sunflower seeds. Machine and hand sewn.
"Chinga La Migra" (back) cotton naturally dyed with Osage Orange, and Hopi black sunflower seeds lovingly tended and grown, cotton string dyed with Hopi black sunflower seeds. Machine and hand sewn.
"In Remembrance of this Vessel II" Anthotype of homegrown Hopi Sunflower seed naturally dyed silk using 35 mm bw photograph resist.
