¡HOLA! / HELLO! I'm Deborah.
I'm a California-based visual artist. Mainly, my work explores questions.
After being stuck in a flat in Madrid last spring and then returning to enjoy California's beautiful beaches and parks just when the most horrific wildfire season began, I was reminded of the urgency of our relationship with nature. I created the 2021 new media Botanical Offshoot series as I reflect on this relationship. For me, these artworks hold two somewhat conflicting ideas simultaneously: a celebration of the sheer beauty of nature and our attempt to control it. With images of flowers as a sort of allegory for the natural world, these artworks pose the question of how our action alter or repair the living world.
And also, I want to get back to how things were before hanging out on the beach with friends and family, only better— in a more beautiful world with environmental and social justice. I hope you can imagine and help build that too.
Until we see each other,
D
I'm a California-based visual artist. Mainly, my work explores questions.
After being stuck in a flat in Madrid last spring and then returning to enjoy California's beautiful beaches and parks just when the most horrific wildfire season began, I was reminded of the urgency of our relationship with nature. I created the 2021 new media Botanical Offshoot series as I reflect on this relationship. For me, these artworks hold two somewhat conflicting ideas simultaneously: a celebration of the sheer beauty of nature and our attempt to control it. With images of flowers as a sort of allegory for the natural world, these artworks pose the question of how our action alter or repair the living world.
And also, I want to get back to how things were before hanging out on the beach with friends and family, only better— in a more beautiful world with environmental and social justice. I hope you can imagine and help build that too.
Until we see each other,
D
