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MORENA-MIRENA
2021
Acrylic paint, cotton thread, and gold metallic thread embroidered with seed beads.
The birth control pill was initially tested on poor vulnerable Puerto Rican women without their fully informed consent, before eventually being marketed to well-off white women. The figure here is of a dark-skinned woman with Taíno features, posed in the likeness of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was a study in perfect human proportion. Here, this specific pose is used to suggest that poor, brown bodies made “perfect” specimens for uninformed medical testing.
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BLACK MADONNA
2021
Black Madonna.
Acrylic paint with seed beads, bugle beads, pearls, glass beads, and Swarovski crystal beads embroidered on canvas.
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La Pietà
2021
Stumpwork with acrylic paint and embroidered with cotton string, glass beads, stone beads (including amethyst, quartz, citrine, sillimanite, howlite, and amber), seed beads, pearls, and Swarovski crystal beads on muslin.
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Exodus 17:8-16 Moses Battling the Amalekites
2021
Inspired by John Everett Millais' Victory O Lord!
Acrylic paint embroidered with seed beads, stone beads, amethyst, amber, sillimanite, turquoise, glass beads, and Swarovski crystal beads on muslin.
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BLACK MADONNA COL BAMBINO
2021
Black Madonna with child.
Acrylic paint with seed beads, bugle beads, pearls, glass beads, and Swarovski crystal beads embroidered on muslin.
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LA CURANDERA
2021
Jar of vapor rub. Acrylic paint, cotton thread, and gold metallic thread embroidered with glass beads and seed beads.
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