CUCAS/PAPER DOLL SERIES La virgen del choclo (Series Cucas/Paper Dolls) 13” x 13” x 2” ¾ 1998Vandykes (brown printing) and Cyanotypes (blueprinting) on paper. Thread, waxed linen, Milagros (charms).Embroidery, machine sewing, and hand stitching. In a private collection PREVIOUS NEXT
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CUCAS/PAPER DOLL SERIES Behind what is seen (Series Cucas/Paper Dolls) 17″ ½ x 12″ x 2″ ¾ 1998Paper, book pages, thread, wire, color xerox-copy of an old photograph. Vandyke printing, machine sewing and hand stitching. In a private collection. PREVIOUS NEXT
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CUCAS/PAPER DOLL SERIES Untitled # 1 (Series Cucas/Paper Dolls) Mixed Media21″x10″ 1/8 x2″ 3/41998Mexican bark paper, veneer, thread, milagros. Hand stitching, machine embroidery. Cyanotypes on veneer and paper. In a private collection. PREVIOUS
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installations Sanctuary of Tears 40” x 96” x 4”2018Bullet cases, fabric, paper, beads, thread, and fabric. Silkscreen on Japanese paper and machine sewing. Sanctuary of Tears refers to the violence that humanity persists to undertake and the false power behind it. Countless lives are taken every second in every corner of the globe, whether it
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MIGRATION, JUSTICE & BELONGING Crossing & Displacement Cross-ing El Río Grande, un memorial para los no identificados 17 x 10 feet 2015-2019 Withered Red willow branches, rosaries, red beads, and string This work speaks about the journey of those who cross the border from Mexico into the United States in search for a better life,
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installations Coming of Age II (Exterior Tranformations) 6’ x 4.5’ in diameter2008Cut-out prints reconfigured and sewn back together, fabric, thread drawings, a mannequin. “Coming of age II” celebrates the 15th year foundation of the SERIE Project (1993-2008). This Quinceañera dress was made with pieces cut out from the left-out prints generated at the studio by
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installations Mourning & Dreaming High, con mucha fé. 11.5″ x 18″Litho transfers, etching, relief, and thread drawings over the 18th-century book of Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Reign of King Richard II/ London.2014-18 This work places images of young adults, “Dreamers” over a collection of 18th century pages from a book of State Trials and
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installations Ofrenda in Homage to Sam Z. Coronado 74″ x 60″ x 6.5′2014Paper, fabric, flowers, marigolds, candles, wood, photograph, silkscreens. Created for the exhibition Rito y Recuerdo: Day of the Dead at the National Museum of Mexican Art, this installation is an ofrenda honoring Sam Z. Coronado—artist, mentor, dear friend, and founder of The SERIE Project in Austin, Texas. Through more than
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installations Movement, Migration & Home, NY city 8’ x 4’ (48 x 96 inches)2020-22Cut out silkscreens, etchings, and relief prints printed on paper. Recomposed and sewn back together. This work acknowledges the movement created by the influx of people who migrate from one place to another. It also directs our attention to the haunting traces
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installations Innocentia 7’ h x 6’ in diameter2004Paper, ink jet transfers of children’s drawings, cyanotypes, wire, fabric, ribbons, thread drawings, thread. This larger-than-life dress symbolizes childhood. The outer layer depicts an ideal: joyful, carefree children drawing and learning. The inner layer reveals a harsh reality for many—marked by sadness, fear, abandonment, and hunger—contrasting innocence with
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