Channel- A Cartography of Thirst, 2019, Adobe earth and vinyl, 20W X 36L feet.
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 2019. Photo by Scott Bauer
Channel- A Cartography of Thirst, 2019, Adobe earth and vinyl, 20W X 36L feet.
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 2019. Photo by Scott Bauer.
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 2019. Photo by Scott Bauer.
CHANNEL, 2017, Three channel HD video with sound, TRT: 7:43
2nd Camera Tenzin Lobsang, sound design by Luz Fleming. Filmed in the Santa Fe River in Aqua Fría, NM
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 2019. Photo by Scott Bauer.
Land Form III- Mother Ditch (diptych), 2019, Handmade adobe and graphite on paper, 40 X 52 inches. Photo by Scott Bauer.
I Am You / Or You Are Me (diptych), 2018, handmade adobe, inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, and graphite on paper, 40 X 26 inches each. Photo by Scott Bauer.
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 2019. Photo by Scott Bauer.
Llanito, 2018, Handmade adobe, inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, and graphite on paper, 40 X 26 inches.
Photo by Scott Bauer.
Gestures of Labor- Through the Lens of Anthropology- A conversation with Anthropologist Dr. Donatella Davanzo
Photos by Dr. Donatella Davanzo
Installation view for CHANNEL, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center , 2019, Photo by Scott Bauer
Labor (set of 8 photographs), digital prints on Hahnemühle paper mounted on Dibond, 12 X 8 inches each, 2019.
People featured in photographs are unrecorded
CHANNEL is a multi-media project initiated during a Water Rights themed residency at The Santa Fe Art Institute. The project draws upon the multiple uses of the homonymic word to create a passage of sculpture, video, and sound that addresses the complex relationship between Hispanic and Native agrarian histories with current riparian rights and land uses. Research about ancient water democracies called Acequias, which continue to exist in New Mexico presently, was expanded through conversations, interviews, and site visits during my residency. The subject provided a very important opportunity to look deeper into my own Native and Hispanic heritage that extends specifically from the region of northern New Mexico ( Cuba, El Llanito, and Bernalillo). My experience and research was presented at The New School in 2017 for a symposium titled Making Home in Wounded Places: Memory, Design, and the Spatial . The paper is titled Sharing Scarcity: Why The Ancient Ethos of Hispanic Water Democracies Matters Today (PDF link).