Photo: Alex Garland
My work explores the material, spiritual, and political dimensions of embodiment, decay, collective care, and resilience through my collection of life-worn fragments that I have tended and transformed for over 25 years.
With great care, I collect and re-iterate these objects: I deconstruct, mend, adorn, disembody, photograph, arrange, print, cut out, paste, and draw them. My process births unlikely pairings and uncanny beings that evoke the timeless interconnection of past lives, future ancestors, and the present moment.
Since childhood, my artistic inquiries have emerged from longings and questions connected to the diasporic, American-Jewish-Venezuelan cultures, languages, and spiritual traditions that I and my family carry with us.
