Crescent Moon of Yemaya's Aquifer is a rotating moon waxing, filling and waning with the pulse of tidal currents in a video projection onto a radiant, pregnant fertility effigy. Footage of water bodies ranging from the saltwater underground railroad in the Caribbean along the Eastern Seaboard to NYC are projected onto the figure, swelling with the full moon. Oil slicked rain puddles ooze into East River streams. Brackish Everglades swamp mangrove ponds slurry into black sand rivers. Fresh river deltas filter through a lunation of dead low tides to the Caribbean Sea. The water level rises, increases to a deluge then eases from murky to Caribbean turquoise as the rotating moon moves from waxing crescent to waning gibbous. Patient trickles, streams and seas of influence overcoming climate contractions, fertility crisis, physical borders and psychic geographies swell on the figure. Shot by the artist over 6 years beginning with her daughter's birth, the work documents the lunitidal currents and currencies of our anthropogenic past to our pelagic present.

Recalling associations between fertility, tidal and lunar cycles across cultural history- the video is a cyclical apparition of light refracted onto the subject as the viewer reflects on their navigational power. Made with residential construction materials (plaster, cotton gauze and aluminum mesh), the pregnant torso sculpture repurposes material refuse as a maternal refuge. The Mother Mold monument fertility effigy was created in the Mama Spa Botanica workshop by casting a pregnant Guatemalan, Nicaraguan American neighbor Catherine Ortiz hailing from a mixed race, culture and status family.