Tropical Geometries Ruana Interruption (Red and Gold)

In my works, landscape and pattern are used to reimagine this tale of modernity and progress in the Americas. Mapping, topographical painting, and botanical illustration co-exist simultaneously with pattern and free-flowing geometry inspired by Pre-Columbian and traditional textiles and ceramics. These traditional textiles are often created by women, and, as "women's work" created in the post-Columbian context, they both echo and resist European modes of representation. Elements of Neo-Concrete painting and modernist design are also present, undermining the fantasy of the sublime, authentic landscape by interrupting its traditional conventions and framing. The geometry in the drawings--traditional and modernist--operates on a separate plane than the landscape, and proposes an open-ended simultaneity of cultures, and an alternate imaging of Latin American modernity and futurity.