ana atalaya magdalena
ARTWORKS WRITING ABOUT
Barbed Wire, Duct Tape, Acrylic Paint, Found and Archival Materials, Dimensions Variable
These three sculptures, which I call “sex dolls”, are intended as a means of comparing and allegorizing the process of environmental industrialization and physical sexualization. By decorating pieces of found lumber with a combination of found materials like duct tape, rope, sandpaper, barbed wire, and a band-aid, alongside archive materials related to the site of personal and familial trauma, and then reintroducing and documenting those wood forms in dialogue with a natural landscape, I am attempting to complicate the boundaries of social transformation and natural origin.
Created and exhibited during a summer at the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program.