Yo Solita Me Enseñé
2017
grandmother's handprint with photo of cotton field
2017
Hand embroidered quilt blocks from artist's grandmother and herself, with recycled fabric
2017
bronze casts of artist's grandmother's clothes pins, plaster casts of nursing clamps & birth control packets on wooden plaques
2017
found objects with graphite drawings of cotton spurs and framed cotton paper
2017
Yo Solita Me Enseñé comes from Tejanas in the early twentieth century in South Texas as they describe how everything in their environment was made themselves or was self-taught (deshilado, bailes, caseros, food, music, artwork, etc). Collectively it represents the transformation of this cotton fiber and the histories that the landscape has shown me.