little paper windows, part of “and the forms which linger, humming in their ears”, Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024

︎las estrellas brillan por ti allá en lo alto︎

“The web on its own holds so much significance in this world I’m building. The web, like brain synapses, connects profound memories of my grandmother’s hands to the taste of arepas and sweet coffee with a lot of milk. The feeling of shame and embarrassment contained in a Pokemon lunchbox. It’s hard to believe but a cow stuffed animal holds my entire childhood in her little body. In the book in the corner room at my grandparent’s apartment there’s a page with a dove and a heart with windows; I want to live there when I grow up. Today, in a more conscious effort, the love we share fits within a soft, small heart with two faces, sewn together, “se fundan en una sola tu alma y la mía”.