Settled In speaks to what comes after the crossing — the quiet, complicated act of staying. The river is behind. The figure is gone. What remains are traces: language, memory, the weight of survival.

Sewn fragments of 17th- and 18th-century texts in Spanish and English form the foundation — voices from colonial pasts stitched into the present. Chine collé binds them to the paper like layers of soil, history, and identity. A blind embossment of the Codex Mendoza floats across the surface, faint but insistent — a reminder that no settlement is ever without history.

There is no body here, only presence. A life woven into a new landscape. Not fully seen, but undeniably there.

Print co-published with Flatbed Press