Desenterrando (Unearthing), is an ongoing installation composed of multiple artworks with video projections, metal-wire sculptures, ceramics and drawings. Through ritualized performances, I seek to unearth recollection for my grandmother, Maritza de la Coromoto, and make connections with my matriarchal lineage. Resulting in a reflection of the traditional hierarchical structure of Venezuelan culture, the woman as the central figure. Throughout the space, there is a repetition of these female figures made with ceramics, prints, candle wax, coffee grounds and sand.

Based on the four elements, I materialize the displacement and emptiness as I massage the ground to mold Tacarigua into the sand of Dewey Beach, Delaware, while contemplating the grounds of Margarita, Venezuela. It results in the merging of two places, by natural elements or a state of mind.

The meditative process of the intimate rituals I have documented with my body to the sound of tambores, using sage stick, candle wax, white and red chalk, in scrolls of paper for Conversación Series #2 and #3, reveal answers from my ancestors and translate forms with materials of the past and present from the U.S. and Venezuela. The result comes from my disconnection with the ground, ocean, and air of this country. I begin to question what it means to not be able to go back, and the only source of feeling close to home is to reterritorialize U.S. materials into Venezuelan portals and objects.

Experiments with collage of images printed on newsprint, hair nailed with pins and rusted nails, wax drips, sage marks, body marks with coffee grounds and sand, and a border of sand on the floor. The images are from the island of Margarita in Venezuela, they are archived from my grandmother's album from the 70s, and my father's photo from a family trip we did in the 2000s. During these experimentations, the US was bombing in front of the island, in the Caribbean ocean, and all I could think about was the smell of the ocean y como extraño el momento en el que el mar se une en la orilla con la arena. Mis pies se sumergen, uniendome con la arena y el mar.