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Recipes for the loss of a sense of belonging, alchemical transmutations; Salude!

Detail view from Éramos Semillas / WE WERE SEEDS, a group exhibition curated by Jose Luis Benavides at Stove Works, 2023. As an installation, the work includes a single channel video projection (RT 12m 15s) 8 mixed media panels, a monoprint, and a series of artist booklets.

Passing down recipes and embracing cultural food practices has been one of the few meaningful ways for me to connect with my
Cuban American ancestry. In preparing and consuming foods that are connected to my matriarchal lineage, I actively perform the role of officiant in a ceremony of remembering and memorializing multiple generations of my female family members whose identities were often relegated to their roles in the kitchen and other domestic spaces. By creating these temporal memorials, I make space to ruminate on their contributions and through an intersectional lens, while attempting to better understand the concentric circles of loss that surround these women.