The Isla PDF: Adoption and statistics
Currently underproduction.
This is an ontological project chronicling the effects, realities, and migration patterns of a Colombian Puerto Rican American family. Inspired by epigenetic and generational trauma, the work will take the final form of a photo book style co-authored PDF. The project’s architecture is modeled on Convolutional Neural Networks, mimicking the learning process and the flow of traumatic data through the diasporic movement of the bodies through space and time.
A sculptural study of light and liminality, beginning as an Undergraduate Research project in 2018 with the support of photographer and DIY engineer Tanner Diberardino. The work has remained a visual obsession unquenched by time, and exacerbated by the obstacles of migratory living.
The piece currently consists of a white fan front lit by a DLP projector, but is anticipated to grow with the addition of 3D printed zoetropes. The color spectrum of light separated by the fan is poetically interpreted as the experience maintained by holding multiple identities simultaneously.
Exhibiting at the Morean Art Center, Spring 2021
Light Regalia: Chasing Digital Artifacts
2018-2021
