Visual Artist / Creative Director
Songs of Stone and Earth
Paradise Lost 004 - exhibition
Paradise Lost 004 - book
Paradise Lost 001-003
Xenon-129
Robbers
Visual Artist / Creative Director
Songs of Stone and Earth
Paradise Lost 004 - exhibition
Paradise Lost 004 - book
Paradise Lost 001-003
Xenon-129
Robbers
The installation expands on the themes of Paradise Lost, bringing together photography, print, ready-mades, and textile. At its center hangs the book's cover image of Maria, printed on fabric. Beneath it, buckets wrapped in aluminum foil and filled with flowers evoke the makeshift shrines found throughout Mexico, informal gestures of devotion constructed from what is at hand.
What appears local and familiar has a history. The imagery of saints and shrines, now so embedded in daily life, carries with it a history of imposition and cultural transformation, the point where the colonial becomes naturalized until it is indistinguishable from the everyday. The installation sits exactly in that space, where the sacred and the ordinary, the imposed and the absorbed, the intimate and the historical can no longer be separated.
In this way, the installation continues the conversation central to Paradise Lost: how to look at the everyday without overlooking its entanglement with broader histories of power, identity, and belonging.