ana atalaya magdalena
CREaTIONS aBOUT
“My Heart is A Red Mesa”
This work is a self-portrait made in the combined modes of an ofrenda altar, a colonial cabinet of curiosity, a hunting trophy, and a rape kit. The materials include 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. “My Heart is A Red Mesa” was installed and ritually destroyed on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate during my participation in the Yale Norfolk School of the Arts residency program.