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- “Por siempre joven”
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- “ARTchivo”
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- “Deshilando el miedo”
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- “Historias íntimas”
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- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
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- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
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- “Bittersweet”
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- “Hoy he roto tus cartas”
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- “Drawing of Man/Drawing of Woman”
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- “Historias íntimas”
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- “Recuerdo de nuestra boda”
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- “120 Minutos de silencio”
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- “Días especiales”
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- “Preoccupation (Gray Hair)”
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- “Dibujo de hombre/Dibujo de mujer”
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- “Untitled (Rinse)”
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- “In Memoriam”
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- Serie “A flor de piel”
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- 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”
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- “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”
1/2—Warp piece: 36” height (34” unravelled) x 60” width
2/2—Weft piece: 60” height x 90.75” width
Deshilando el miedo
Unravelling the Fear
New York, 2010-2012
Camouflage fabric, pins, twill tape and magnets
Diptych:
-Warp piece: 36” height (34” unravelled) x 60” width
-Weft piece: 60” height x 90.75” width
Installation of two pieces of threads which were unravelled from one yard (60” x 36”) of camouflage fabric. More than 1,500 threads were unravelled by hand until having the the warp and the weft threads mostly separate, except for 2” left in the warp for support.
This piece is my response condemning the violence and repression by the military in Guatemala’s 36 years civil war; it’s my attempt to symbolically take away their power by entirely unraveling camouflage fabric thread-by-thread. The military governments involved in this war were responsible for the genocide of entire villages and the 40,000 disappeared victims.
120 Minutos de Silencio (120 Minutes of Silence)
Untitled (Souvenirs from Governors Island) 
Untitled (Archipelago) 
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Building 110: LMCC's Art Center at Governors Island, New York, NY
Final session Open Studios weekend
December 16—17, 2010
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency at Governors Island, NY.
Work-in-progress (“Deshilando el miedo”)
Started in 2010 while artist-in-residency at LMCC’s Governors Island, this work-in-progress installation of threads were taken out from a yard of camouflage fabric. For a period of 2 months I worked on unravelling threads by hand, and only 11.5” from the 36” original yard were unravelled at the time.
60” height x 31.5” width.