ana atalaya magdalena
ARTWORKS WRITING ABOUT
A self-portrait made in memory of an oral history belonging to my mother’s family concerning a mesa (plateaued mountain) in northern New Mexico. The work compares historic family histories of colonial violence and displacement with my own contemporary experiences of distance and memory.
Plaster, Duct Tape, Felt, Found Materials including a piece of the short story “I Love My Husband” by Nélida Piñon (translated to English), pieces of an early 20th-century art book concerning the Santa Fe hotel La Fonda, a foraged Artemisia leaf (Artemisia is a type of mug root which is said to help with dreams and inducing stillbirths), a wasp nest, tree branches, a broken cup, lipstick, barbed wire and duct tape.
Installed and ritually destroyed on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate during my participation in the 2024 Yale Norfolk School of the Arts residency program.