Isolation, fabric, quilting batting, yarn, wire, wood, 2022
Supplication, fabric, quilting batting, yarn, wire, wood, 2022
Evolution, fabric, beads, pearls, quilting batting, yarn, wire, and wood, 2023
Why Won't You Look at Me?, Balcones White ceramics, porcelain, and copper wire, 2022
It Will Pass, mixed high fire ceramics, 2023
Crochet Locs, synthetic hair and yarn, 2023
Anonymity.
Without a face to claim, the subject exists as both anyone and no one.
Isolation, video courtesy of Katherine Deck-Portillo.
My Mexican grandmother was a seamstress. My life has been full of colorful stitching and handmade affection. From her I learned how to sew and crochet, as I explored sculpture I incorporated those skills into my work.
Building my life sized, shrouded figures, I’ve portrayed those emotional and physical threads between my past and my present.
Supplication is a self portrait.
It is the feeling of giving oneself up without a recipient’s desire for the offering. An expression of my relationship —at the time—with being vulnerable. That vulnerability is met with an audience that cannot give back or willingly receive.
A metaphor of how it feels to show oneself through actions while still not completely revealing the heart.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
"U Don't Own ME" group show at Interloper Gallery. Images courtesy of Carlos Ferrand.
