Description

My current work is an investigation of migration and residual ancestral memories that examine space and place of human existence.  Geographical landscapes have provided resources for the continuous mobility of humans to create communities and construct abodes. I’m constantly going back and forth to gather pieces of abandoned structures left to the atmosphere elements that blend the historical chronology of rural to urban human migration. Relics usually have associations with objects, or heirlooms, or body parts. I use historical ceramic figurines and other ceramic objects that once held value or importance to a group of people and reduce them to rubble/shards. This process is leveling the playing field or physical reminders of one’s existence. The structures produce a visual silence, evoke the imagination, offer notions of commodities and value, and illustrate a sense of desperation that provides insights to various cultural practices and traditions.  These works are reminders of the past and current lessons to learn about the persistence and preservation of one’s own culture.