nnatto is a spice and food coloring agent made from the seeds of the achiote tree, native to South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and grows in Miami.
This series follows my Americana Quilt series, in which I started to explore diversity and race tensions in the US after the 2020 pandemic. The Americana Quilt was also partially inspired by the US South West landscape, as I experienced it during a road trip in early 2020, leading me to experiment with natural dyes. I want to keep exploring our relationship to the landscape in this new series by looking for dying elements tied to our local environment, such as the annatto seed