What are diasporic gestures?
Signs and signals used and issued by diasporic subjects to (un)root in the places they’ve inhabited.
Words are Symbols (2019)
Some gestures include:
To sew a maple leaf to a ficus (2018)
The symbol of the nation-state of Canada united with a tree in my childhood park in Mexico. Some of my questions were “Can these two non-humans spark a conversation? Can I be a facilitator for the encounter? And, What would a dry Canadian maple leaf tell my local tree?”
Vera vera (2018)
Photos of the river processed with the river water.
To print (2017)
Four different canvases pressed on the same surface.
Lines (2018)
Finding truths and connecting dots in an abandoned American art history book.