Abuelita / Little Grandmother

Описание: Abuelita is an installation/assemblage painting depicting a mestiza woman rising from an old suitcase. The suitcase contains stitched burlap arpilleras and samples of leaf litter and duff from several species of old-growth and native trees, including oak and sycamore. Arpilleras are cloth tapestries, first made by women in Chile during the Chilean dictatorship 1973-1989. Other materials include Wood panel modeling paste, acrylic paint, agates, quartz and obsidian, photo collage from old magazines olive branch, backstrap loom textile, cloth and paper made from wiood pulp collected from Todo Los Santos Lake in Chilean Patagonia collected with my grandmother in 1984. Abuelita serves to honor our foremothers who carry history and memory