The COVID-19 pandemic created hiatuses and ruptures in our daily lives which in turn offers us time to reimagine the present in order to live more sustainable futures. The intense opaqueness and disorientations caused by the pandemic showed me that mutual aid,...
“Dalang on the Border” brings the ritual puppet master of Asian drama to our desert borderlands of northern Mexico and southwestern USA. He plays his fighting cocks across the border stage. Around him, spirits from this shifting edge of empire reflect the...
Time dissociates particles and obliterates standpoints. In this way, the spatial domains of our social lives are formed. Being at home for weeks, I feel more acutely how time fractures a house into rooms and how spending morning in bed or night in the kitchen –with no...
COVID-19 has upended life as we know it. Much of what is familiar has changed or has adapted as society deals with the new reality. The image, “One Way Aisle!,” depicts a newly implemented safety measure that promotes physical distancing to protect shoppers as they...
My most recent work brings to light a number of topics that not only reflect my own humanity as a Mexican-American, but a wider range of borderland, Latinx, and contemporary societal issues. On a broader note, I explore and investigate personal socio-political...
