Working on Untitled (Blue, Green), during an artist residency at Lost and Found Lab, Cos Cob, CT, January 2025

Carnival Series: FeatherWorks

New York, 2024–Present

Dyed chicken feathers on Amate paper, hand-embroidered French knots and fringe (embroidery floss)
Dimensions variable

Carnival Series is a continued exploration and variation of dyed feathers on paper to create abstract compositions reminiscent of Latin America—particularly from growing up in Guatemala—where the exuberance of color is very much present in its culture and everyday life. The vibrancy found in its markets is always prevalent, from fruits, vegetables and traditional foods, flowers, handicrafts, textiles, toys, to traditional dances, festivities, and rituals, where the use of dyed feathers is oftentimes common.

Each panel is an abstract composition of dyed feathers on a colored Amate paper attached with French knots, leaving a border all around to showcase the color of the paper as well. In some cases the feathers—which were a gift from an artist friend who bought them in a market in Mexico City—are fixed one on top of another, playing with a gradation of feather sizes, going from larger to smaller.

The colors of the handmade fringes made with embroidery floss are picked from the colors of the feathers in each panel. They sometimes grow outside of the page, and give the work another layer of manual labor. The macramé technique for all my fringes is Lark’s Head Knot.

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Untitled (Blue, Green)

Dyed chicken feathers on Amate paper, metallic and synthetic threads, artist’s gray hair
15.5" x 23"

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Untitled (Blue, Green, Yellow)

Dyed chicken feathers on Amate paper, hand-embroidered French knots and fringe (embroidery floss)
15.5" x 23"

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Untitled (Green, Orange)

Dyed chicken feathers on Amate paper, hand-embroidered French knots and fringe (embroidery floss)
20" x 23"

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Untitled (Carnival)

Dyed chicken feathers on Amate paper, hand-embroidered French knots and fringe (embroidery floss)
23.5" x 23"

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