Multimedia
water
is a metaphor of and a literal vehicle for the migration of
people and the transportation of goods from one land ...
to another.
I often question the themes of globalism and migration and
their consequences of cultural assimilation, isolation, and the
disintegration of personal and collective memories. Water has
become an ever more important element in my installations, both
as a material and in the immediate environment surrounding the work.
Especially with its allusion to rivers and oceans, water
is a metaphor of and a literal vehicle for the migration of
people and the transportation of goods from one land, one world,
to another. In recent years I have begun constructing vessels,
in particular boats, in order to explore these ideas, intertwining
different spatial narratives that connect the history of
the Americas. In many ways these ideas are trying to
reinterpret the "discovery" of this continent, which
for those of us with indigenous blood is a never-ending event.
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