Amapolas

Date: 2023 - on going

A series of textile collages, drawings, and monotypes.

This project returns me to my roots through the poppy flower, a symbol of nature entwined with the violence of the drug trade of Mexico. Amapolas draws from its political and cultural entanglements, tracing how a single flower can embody both tenderness and destruction. Emerging amid one of Sinaloa’s darkest periods in 2024, the poppy recurs in my work as both motif and metaphor—evoking home, and the bittersweet weight of belonging to a place shaped by resilience as much as by loss.

Drawing performance: Buscando Amapolas, Maison Mono, Brooklyn NY, 2025

Common ground sculpture, 2024. Materials: Mexican soil and water, U.S. soil and water, amapola/red flowers, petatl, Oaxacan carved river-stones, clay plates, gold leaf.