¡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 in the spring of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic 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 actions alter or repair the living world.
I've also been thinking about my maternal ancestors who were native Mesoamericans and trying to understand what their spiritual life was and how they lived in relation to the earth and natural world. As we get back to some form of normal, I hope we can imagine more sustainable and beautiful ways of living in the world and with other beings— one that encompasses 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 in the spring of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic 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 actions alter or repair the living world.
I've also been thinking about my maternal ancestors who were native Mesoamericans and trying to understand what their spiritual life was and how they lived in relation to the earth and natural world. As we get back to some form of normal, I hope we can imagine more sustainable and beautiful ways of living in the world and with other beings— one that encompasses environmental and social justice.
I hope you can imagine and help build that too.
Until we see each other,
D
