Sin Nombre en Esta Tierra Sagrada is a meditative series of works rooted in the Arizona landscape. The exhibition honors the thousands of migrant lives lost in these homelands. The works explore issues of home and belonging, identity, displacement, erasure, and the tragedy of human loss in this terrain.
The Arizona desert, in all its beauty, has become a place that holds unimaginable despair and sorrow. The luminous landscape is one many migrants cross in desperate need of a new home, opportunity, and a better, safe life. Men, women, and children will take this path when all others are exhausted. They risk everything in pursuit of the American Dream. This journey, heartbreakingly, will often lead to death.
Through evocative, non-representational works, I imagine and suggest the moments right before the migrants perish. In this work, I consider and reflect on the lives lost that ultimately reside within the desert soil.