TV Video, antique photographs, sugar skulls and cactus
I live in Southern California with my dual ancestry still intact.
I see my last name and live the life of a descendent of Mexican-Spanish European people who came north to
California over one-hundred years ago but I also know that my maternal line goes back to the indigenous
Tarasco people of Michoacan Mexico and since they trace the lineage of the tribe through the mothers
I am Tarasco as well as Spanish European.
So I, like so many other people, have many cultures and histories to think about when I think about who I am
and what I am doing on this earth.
My soul has many rooms and doorways.
This video installation explores those rooms and doorways with images from Dia de los Muertos
of the past and present. It also includes excerpts of Aztec Poetry on Death that is mixed with
the historic and contemporary images of the
Dia de los Muertos.
The antique photographs represent forgotten souls.
The cactus is life.
The TV and video filled with electricity is modern technology (ollin) moving forward.
