Is a profound and heartfelt celebration of humanity’s pilgrimage on the Earth’s surface.
The maps here displayed—all made from human hair—contain a mixture of individual DNA patterns, which aim at transcending geopolitical boundaries.
The resulting configuration of said maps alludes to the lines from certain braided hairdos, carried by African women who were enslaved in the American continent. Such women wove getaway routes on their heads, in order to escape their oppressors.
Using hair as a medium, I enter the expanded field of painting and cartography, proposing both a displacement of the concept of race and a re-formulation of the genetic thread that unites us.
The conditions to which humans are subjected may create differences between individuals. However, our genes are intertwining, mingling, forming unity, converting our fragmented vitality into a whole.
