Welcome Home
2020
What is home ?
A question I’ve found myself revisiting throughout my life. What constitutes an environment that I can be in and truly feel at home? My work within this series focuses on moments that reflect elements of what I personally identify as home. I investigate these moments through decay, growth, ritual, and culture. I practice this through the manipulation of materiality within elements such as fiber, metal, and various natural materials to create a new physical purpose and content than originally. I don't idolize my collected elements, but more so thank them for the comfort and stability they have brought me.
Acorn dye samples
Bronze, Iron acorn cast
The Oak Tree’s Acorn
180'“ L x 18” W
Wool, acorn dye, bronze and iron metal
Growing up I would easily fill my pockets with acorns and now that I have returned up north from staying in Florida, I have found myself collecting acorn again..
Acorns have always been interesting to me, a small nut that people don't think twice about and it can potentially grow to become a big wise oak tree.
Drifted net
58” L x 42" W
Silk organza, butterfly sweet pea dye, seaweed dyed wool yarn, sea shells.
S H E L L S
One by one,
I add you to my collection,
Hidden within the sand,
I dig through the sand to find my treasure.
You were once a home,
But now just a carcass.
Drifting through the sea,
And finding yourself on the beach
Being uncovered by me.
I fill my pockets with my bountiful treasure,
I add you to my collection of broken homes.
My Recipe Book
8” L x 5” W
Recycled paper, shells, black beans, corn,peppers and naturally dyed yarn (seaweed and spirulina)
My comb collection
3” L x 2.5” W
Beeswax, corn kernels, rose petals, red chili pepper, red chili pepper seeds
My Mothers Mountain Vessel
12” L x 13 “ W x 23” D
Flour, Recycled paper, grout, black bean dyed fabric, black beans.
The Bean
The bean's presence is warmth, direct transportation to my Hispanic culture. My grandpa grows beans on his land and because this my family has heavily used legume within our cooking. Personally influenced me to have a lot of respect and thankfulness to the the bean. The bean represents comfort and brings me back home.
Its important to shift through the beans, when you sort through the beans, you are introducing yourself to the bean as you begin to cook with it.
The framed Maravilla
12” W x 12” L x 2” D
Metal frame in;
Iron and brazed with bronze, framing a
corn husk and marigold flower paper.
During my making of this collection of work I experienced multiple losses of my family. This changed and moved my work to focusing on my family and their practices of care. This frame was molded and created to hold a moment of loss, the flower of marigold is used within my practice when celebrating the dead and I celebrate who I have lost.