Collaboratively created in the Mama Spa Botanica workshop, Arco K'uychi Back Bridge is composed of intimate ephemera, environmental waste, domestic construction materials cast into a pregnant, suspended torso. Rainbow doused palm fronds from exotic and native species such as Sabal, Fishtail, Areka, Chinese fan and Vichia palm interweave with locks of upcycled ribbon, Flan Boyan seed pods, iridescent glitter shoe laces or building studs projecting from the mother's trunk. Vibrant, vintage African Guipure lace shelters the figure beneath full spectrum light. A pearlescent Mother Mold monument pulsates light, while shading a panoramic Flora Aura landscape painting. In the Southern Survey Biennial exhibition, the prismatic fertility effigy spirals in a Foliage Obscura sanctuary installation as part of Coralina Rodriguez Meyer's solo exhibition in a historic shotgun house at Project Row Houses. The rythmic pattern of the ceiling's wood studs are softened with vibrant, neon bars of textile adorned windows.

A vibrant and vulnerable fertility effigy's ankle fronds are bound and suspended from a Sabal palm in the Miami Dade College sanctuary garden as part of the Voladores solo exhibition of Mother Mold monuments, Linea Negra moving images & Foliage Obscura paintings from the Mama Spa Botanica.

The Mother Mold fertility effigy was cast in Mama Spa Botanica workshop at Miami Dade College, a Hispanic Serving Institution, with the artist’s Chinese American comadre, comrade & neighbor Shelley Liao on January 6, 2023 while she was 9 months pregnant.

Making a Mother Mold
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