The Edge project is an exhibition of mixed media paintings and Mesoamerican alfombra inspired floor installations showcased at the National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Oh from July-October 2021.

This series operates as a visual continuum rooted within indigenous aesthetics extending into contemporary Latinx culture through themes of perception, iconography,writing/image-making, and popular materials. These works explore ideas in ancient science, spirituality, cosmology and their relevance today.

The Edge is where two distinct environments meet, clash, and intertwine.

As we each experience the edge of our own worlds – individually, within families and social circles, and as communities at large –we can see these Edge environments as transformative places with potential for a more abundant, robust, tolerant, and creative collective existence.

The edge effect in ecology is a natural phenomenon that occurs at the boundary of two adjacent ecosystems.  The wisdom of indigenous science, supported by contemporary ecology, tells us that in these overlapping habitats of confrontation, chaos, clashing and violence -are also territories of innovative synergy where biological life thrives and flourishes. At the edge we see nature at its most creative and robust providing ideal conditions for new species to sprout.