Oil Spill, Chapter 2, Excerpt From a Novel
2015
Mixed Media on Tyvek, and fresh water pearls
135 x 315 inches
Oil Spill is a large-scale drawing that reminds the viewer of a large minimalist artwork. Across it, a parabola made with pearls crosses the black landscape and meets a pair of toucans observing from the right side. The title: Oil Spill is integral to the piece as it helps the viewer physically enter the work.
Chapter 2, Excerpt from a Novel
2015
India Ink on Tyvek, Paper Sculpture
Borrachero and Flood both utilize patterns from European lace. I heroicize a traditionally feminine craft with scale and create via drawings, parallel between gender colonization and the domination and control of nature. In these drawings nature wins by flooding and erasing a human landscape.