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STATEMENT OF WORK
Through the reconfiguration of everyday domestic materials such as dishtowels, fabric, and utensils, I think of the complexities of home: a space of comfort, a container of memory, and an entrapping myth.
Searching my family archives and personal memory, I draw connections between generational inheritances, craft, storytelling, and ritual. Navigating the vacancies and overlaps in my Mexican and Irish-American family histories has been a conduit to exorcising loss, the interconnectivity of time, and collective experiences of home.
A specific crochet stitch, gestures from family photographs, the sound of a conversation from home movies, or a repeating floral motif on the fabric my grandmother sewed into curtains, all serve as raw materials in my practice. It is imperative that multiple timelines exist in these works through employing found objects of varying age; pointing to broader questions about repetition, generational patterns, and the ways in which the past inhabits the everyday.