Colored China Rags creates formal analogies between rags, used by cleaning women, with the suppleness of a woman’s body, and the range of skin tones that exist in ethnically mixed communities. The work resulted from a series of powder skin tone pigments added to the recipes prior to firing the casts, thereby manipulating the chemical composition of the clay body and changing its form. The intention of these artworks is to question the mythology of whiteness as pure relative to the history of bone china and notions of Mestizaje in the Caribbean.
Other Work From JUANA VALDÉS
