Chiquita, 2025
Welded steel, ceramic, beeswax, rivets
The banana company and its reign over Latin America. The queen of fruits and the pinnacle of labor.
I specifically think of the plantation workers who face very high exposure to toxic pesticides while processing bananas.
Many of them including children, live nearby the plantations and are at high risk of health problems because of the polluted air and water wells.
Workers carry bundles of bananas on their backs and hips that can weigh over 100 Ibs, all for our “daily potassium intake” and açaí bowls.
Razorwire, 2025
Steel, wax, black iron oxide
72 x 60 in
I committed to the painstaking process of assembling a hand-made razor wire as a rosary/tasbih prayer string of beads.
Razorwire is deployed in the gallery as a ghost, a line floating in space, like a found object extracted from the war field
and suspended for challenging our perceptions and meanings of craft, the violence of objects, the making of artifacts of domination, of control and surveillance.
Razorwire is deployed in the gallery as a ghost, a line floating in space, like a found object extracted from the war field
and suspended for challenging our perceptions and meanings of craft, the violence of objects, the making of artifacts of domination, of control and surveillance.
Fruits of Labor, 2024
Beeswax, paper, ceramic, rawhide
18 x 8 x 14 in
Cyclical Border, 2024
Welded steel, rust
62 x 62 in
I deconstructed the border, transforming it into a circular system that amplifies the cyclical nature of violence and harm that is perpetuated by the construction of border walls everywhere.
Harness, 2024
Beeswax, cotton, corn husks, wood, steel
48 x 58 in
“Harness” holds the evolutions, movement, and industrialization of cacao. Its lineage, traced from indigeneity reflects the remembrance of a ceremonial tool that has transformed into a commodity.
A map of cacao trade routes is embedded into its beeswax flesh. This work amplifies the ways this pod has traveled to satisfy the western taste, but also the memories and wounds left on the people who have turned to this fruit and for the ones who have no choice but to toil for it.
A map of cacao trade routes is embedded into its beeswax flesh. This work amplifies the ways this pod has traveled to satisfy the western taste, but also the memories and wounds left on the people who have turned to this fruit and for the ones who have no choice but to toil for it.
Instruments, 2023
pine resin, beeswax, rawhide, corn husk, latex, nylon, copper
Bellow, 2023
A luminum, wood glue, latex
18 in x 5 in
Palimpsest, 2023
Receipts, paper, rubber, wood glue
Receptive Vessels II, 2022
Ceramic, ink, silk, cotton
84 x 26 in