Ojalá Ojo Mala (Phara de Faraones Miramar) / Hopeful, Malicious Eye (Phara of Pharaohs from Miramar) is a fertility effigy cast in 2022 with the artist's Miramar neighbor whose family hails from Ayiti, with her mother in law from a fishing village called La Gonave Haiti. A turquoise and lapis colored fertility effigy with tropical leaves and coral growing from its neck- rests on an upcycled, knit cotton bedcover.

Ojo Mala is ill luck, or a malady of the gaze striking children who are touched too much or not enough by evil spirits often cured by an abuela passing an egg over the child. Spanning Caribbean households across Creole and Latine families, the folkloric tradition is often associated with Sunday "limpias" or cleansing the body, the home and the spirit.

The work was created in the Mama Spa Botanica workshop forming Intimate Ephemera, Environmental Waste cast in domestic construction materials including: coral collected along Miami Beach after tropical storms, hair strands, gold pigment, metallic paint, acrylic paint, nail salon glitter, micah powder, birthday giftwrap, used pandemic medical gloves, phosphorescent die, interior & exterior latex house paint, industrial floor resin, building stud, wall insulation foam on reclaimed cotton knit bed cover.

2022-2024