Honor thy maker
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My MFA thesis exhibition HONOR THY MAKER interrogates the concept of who the maker may be in relation to indigenous and non-indigenous traditions, as well as their intercultural exchanges. My main medium is thread and cloth; I understand fiber processes as an internal resistance as I begin to confront my sense of self in relation to the antagonistic cultural identity that I embody caused by colonialism. As a mixed Mexican and American woman from the U.S Southwest Mexico Border, I wrap and bind religious icons, sentimental objects, and raw materials to create a personal narrative that speaks to the amalgamation of religions and bi-cultural aesthetics within the borderland region. The action of wrapping and binding references the Maya sacred bundles to connect with my indigenous ancestry, and question what the foundations of my ethnicity truly are. My wrapped works reference this ritual, by using symbols connected to place, spirituality, and practice into non-binary structure. This action visually expresses my refusal to accept forced westernized belief systems imposed on myself and my undiscovered ancestry. Tensioned threads merge these concepts together and they become one like my heritage, like the border. This research elaborates the conceptual framework behind the artwork and their final immersive installation featured in HONOR THY MAKER.
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M.F.A.