Opening Reception:
February 14, 5PM
Dane Arts Gallery

This solo exhibition showcases my body of work titled Fragmentos. Informed by the natural processes of growth and decay, change and transformation, each paper fragment is a poetic and abstract narrative embedded and embroidered with seeds. The week after my grandmother passed away, I worked intuitively, forming sheets of paper while listening to boleros (a genre of slow-tempo Latin music). Remembering the way she danced with my grandfather, sang to her parakeet, cared for her orchids, and cooked the most delicious picadillos, I pulp painted my way through memories of Tita Aurora. When all I had left of her was intangible, the transformative act of papermaking started a healing process through an art experience that was tactile and physical.

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