ARTIST STATEMENT
CONTACT | LINKS
- “Deshilando el miedo”
- Descripción
- “Por siempre joven”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
- Descripción
- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
- Descripción
- “Bittersweet”
- Descripción
- “Hoy he roto tus cartas”
- Descripción
- “Drawing of Man/Drawing of Woman”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Recuerdo de nuestra boda”
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- “120 Minutos de silencio”
- Descripción
- “Días especiales”
- Descripción
- “Preoccupation (Gray Hair)”
- Descripción
- “Dibujo de hombre/Dibujo de mujer”
- Descripción
- “Untitled (Rinse)”
- Descripción
- “In Memoriam”
- Descripción
- Serie “A flor de piel”
- Descripción
- Serie “Flores silvestres”
- “Wildflowers” Series
- “Abuela, madre, hija”
- “Grandmother, Mother, Daughter”
- “Retorno a la pubertad”
- “Return to Puberty”
- “Para verte mejor”
- “The Better to See You With”
- “Ái Spik Ínglish”
- Descripción
- “Para que nos recuerdes mejor”
- “To Remember Us Better”
- “Valentía y coraje”
- “Courage and Bravery”
- “Para besarte mejor”
- “The Better to Kiss You With”
- “Para acariciarte mejor”
- “The Better to Caress You With”
- “Bésame mucho”
- “Kiss Me Plenty”
- “Reddest Red”
- “Escudos”
- “Shields”
- Serie “Instalación en museos de arte”
- “Installation at Art Museums” Series
- “Encierro rosa”
- “Romance Imprisonment”
- “Título de propiedad”
- “Ownership Title”
- “La sombra”
- “The Shadow”
Historias íntimas
Intimate Stories
New York, 2009-11
Artist book hand-bound, letters and clamshell-box
Text printed digitally, includes one etching print
Edition of 12
Book: 8.5” x 5.5” closed; 8.5” x 11” open
Letters: 8.5” x 11”. Envelopes (No. 10): 4.125” x 9.5”
Box: 10.75”x 9 1/8” x 2 5/8” closed;
9 1/8” x 20 11/16” x 2 9/16” open
A collection of 25 letters from the women in my family—from my 93-year-old grandmother to my 20-year-old cousin—sharing their first time they got their menstruation. Each original handwritten letter was mailed during 2009, then it was scanned and reproduced on fine writing paper and placed inside envelopes with the relationship of each woman to me written on the front.
A one-hundred plus page hand-made book—printed and bound by myself—accompanies the letters as a typed version. The book also contains a translation to either English or Spanish of each letter.
Both book and letters fits into a handmade clamshell-box to protect and hold them together.
Etching printed by the artist at Hunter College Printshop, 2011.
Book binding and clamshell box done by the artist at Center for Book Arts, 2011.
The production of this project was made possible thanks to a 2009-2010 Grant from NoMAA, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Cartas—De la serie "Historias íntimas" 
"Días especiales" (“Special Days”)
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
“Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas,” The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery,
New York, NY
November 22—December 31, 2011
Curated by Tatiana Flores
Historias íntimas
Hand-made bound book and letters, printed digitally, contained in clamshell box.
Dimensions variable.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
“Memories Past and Present: 1765 - 2011,” Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY
Uptown Arts Stroll 2011,
June 1—September 12, 2011
Historias íntimas
Hand-made bound book and letters, printed digitally, contained in clamshell box.
Dimensions variable.
