Two pregnant fertility effigies nest among a coconut palm nursery as a syncretic pieta between exotic, synthetic mothers and their endemic habitats. Peeled of their protective skin, each mummy cast reveals the neon entrails, eggshells, quipus, tropical flora, eaten fruits, recipes and coffee grounds cast in domestic construction materials. An altar "asiento" of two Mother Mold monuments, the title draws from syncretic liberation mythology: Ciguapa and Pachamama dieties are a translation between gendered geographies and spiritual traditions of Caribbean and Andean cultures of the Americas. Recalling liberation sanctuaries along the Saltwater underground railroad (where botanica retablos are still found in tropical or littoral terrains today) the work restores ancestral extants to their queer, quaint and humid home.

The work considers the culture of procreation in the Americas- a complicated historical, political, and geographic context wherein conquering the wild landscape, reproductive bodies, and indigenous societies stem from a colonial Eurocentric legacy. Inhabiting its endemic environment, the fertility votive is made by combining intimate ephemera and environmental waste cast into a slurry of domestic construction materials. Monuments to the fertile survivors of man-made and natural disasters, the Mother Mold effigy figures bear the burdens of internalized structural violence made in and of our bodies, our landscape and our movement. Emboldened by its tropical, endemic habitat; the materiality of the maternal monument embodies our collective refuse as a site for procreative refuge.

Upcycled waste including intimate ephemera and environmental detritus are cast in domestic construction materials to create the Mother Molds including: Neon floor resin, wall insulation foam, building stud, plaster, interior latex house paint, mica powder, phosphorescent pigment, plastic funerary plants, tropical foliage, discarded plastic bags, wood beads, cockroach, anise, cumin, cinnamon, coriander, black beans, egg shells, coffee slurry, gardenia perfume bottle, Peruvian Straight hair weave, bamboo fiber, braided synthetic rope & Quipus from llama & alpaca fur

Apariciones: Virgen Gruta (2020-present) photographs render fertility effigy altars of Mother Mold monuments in their fecund habitat to reclaim American material refuse as a vernacular, maternal refuge. Venerating entropic life and death cycle rituals across indigenous equatorial cultivars, the vibrant retablos are apparitions of vulnerable, yet unvanquished interior psychic landscapes overcoming assimilation and species collapse. Welcoming and warning viewers to the fabled biography of plantation labor farms and botanica pharmacies, the works excavate biological impacts on melanated, chosen families whose endangered plantology wisdom transgresses health and habitat disparities. Digging in personal and global South and equatorial archives over 2 decades, the artist renders the geopolitics of gender, displacement and land sovereignty emerging within the syncretic sites in their familiar, queer and quaint, endemic or exotic landscape.