a transtemporal duet

This is a sound installation and video projection on a deshilado tablecloth. The textile, made by my maternal grandmother, Socorro Casillas, was created as a gift for my parents as a wedding gift. Deshilado is a laborious craft that my mother and I never learned due to its sharp learning curve. Videos of the sky over Yanaguana project onto the tablecloth, an activity I find grounds me in the present. Ambient bird chirps and binaural beats echo through a stereo sound system, providing sound therapy for meditating through the melancholy of migration, displacement and loss of intergenerational knowledge.

2021