Vestido de Flores

​

I began making this work during the colder months of the year in anticipation for the Spring and the idea of beauty blossoming from loss and pain. I’ve heard that Spring is natures apology for the hardships of Winter. We all experience hardship in our lives, difficult moments that shape us or move us in a different direction. We overcome somehow, we heal, rebuild, and our battle scars can even become a badge of pride.

Through all the adversity and pain we experience, the loss of loved one is perhaps the most painful thing a person can endure. There are no broken bones or open wounds to mend. Years later, there are still remnants of that pain and the healing never stops. 

I think back now and I remember my mother with a certain tenderness. Memories that were once too painful to think of have become sweet again. Love overcomes, and happiness too finds its way back to you.

The title “Vestido de Flores” is a reference to the floral patterns in these prints taken from a dress my mother wore in her youth. 

For me, this series is a reflection about the transference of one’s love and essence, what happens with those things left behind by our loved ones. The tangible and intangible. 

This series was my way of embracing those memories and commemorate her life on this significant 10 year mark. 

​

​