- 2-D animation
- 3-D animation
- Abstract
- Abstract Painting
- Alt. process photography
- Animation
- Architect
- Archivist
- Art History
- Arts Writer
- BFA
- Blacksmith
- Book arts
- Book Illustration
- Branding
- Calligraphy
- Caricature
- Carpentry
- Ceramic
- Collaborative/collective
- Collage
- Color Photography
- Comics
- Commercial Photography
- Commission
- Community art
- Concept Art
- Conceptual
- Construction
- Copy photography
- Curator
- Development
- Digital 3-D modeling
- Digital Fabrication
- Digital Media
- Digital Photography
- Documentary
- Eco-Art
- Editor
- Editorial photography
- Engraving
- Etching
- Event photography
- Fab Lab
- Fashion
- Feminist
- Fiber
- Fiber Art
- Figure
- Film
- Film Photography
- Freelance
- Furniture Design
- Gallerist
- Game developer
- Garments
- Gender
- Goldsmith
- Graphic design
- Health and medical
- Home furnishing
- Identity Design
- Illustration
- Installation
- Interactive
- Interior Design
- Interior Painting
- Jewelry
- Kinetic
- Landscape
- Landscape Architect
- Lettering
- Letterpress
- Logo Design
- Master Printer
- Mechanical drawing
- Metal Fabrication
- Metalsmithing
- MFA
- Miniature
- Model
- Model maker
- Monotype
- Mural
- Mural Artist
- Music
- Packaging Design
- Painting
- Performance art
- Photography
- Porcelain
- Portrait
- Portraiture
- Preparator/ Art Handler
- Printmaking
- Product Design
- Public Art
- Public Engagement
- Representational
- Restoration
- Robotics
- Screenprinting
- Sculptor
- Sculpture
- Sign painter
- Social media
- Social Practice
- Soft Sculpture
- Stone
- Stop Motion Animation
- Street Art
- Surface Design
- Teaching artist
- Textile
- UI Design
- Video
- Visual Identity
- Web Design
- Wedding photography
- Window display
- Woodcut
- Woodworking
- Writer
Grounding, Reclaiming, Belonging
Connect me with Alejandra Cuadra
Pasajes de Memoria. 2020. Video, sound, senses, sensitivity, memories, conversations of time. Video
Crecimientos de Raíces. 2020. Wood, suitcase, red roses, earth, plaster, memories that once were, thoughts of belonging, change through time. 23" x 14" x 31"
Encapsulating Memories. 2020. Red Roses, glue, memories that once were, encapsulating of thoughts. (5) 3" x 3" x 2"
Estoy Aqui. 2020. Mixed Media, paper, thread, thoughts of words. 7.5" x 4.75"
Know…. 2020. Mixed Media, Paper, color pencils, thoughts of words. 7" x 9"
They Stand Tall. 2020. Steel, earth, seeds of paper, weight of uncertainty, longing for breath, rituals of making, Installation.
Details of images #2 + #3
Description
When my grandmother turned eighty years old, she embarked on the pilgrimage to see La Virgen de Guadalupe in Mexico City, this was the same day my mom went to a United States embassy in Brazil for the fourth time to get her visa with the hopes of returning here.
This current body of work reflects how I am seeking to redefine my own freedoms, identity, home, and belonging. I am inspired by memories that once were and are now being created. I am allowing intuition and freedom to lead in the pursuit of discovery. Through my sensibility within the places I dwell, I am revisiting the narratives of my upbringing and my family’s own journeys. I am threading narratives, memories, beliefs, home, hope, and passages, seeking to redefine my ways of belonging. In the words of Bell Hooks all aspects of life has “revealed to me that the treasures I was seeking were already mine. All my longing to belong, to find a culture of place,...waiting for me to remember and to reclaim.” This series is evolving, I am not rushing this moment or experience, I am meditating with the intimacies. This is where I stand even with the uncertainties of life. I am reclaiming and redefining my own sense of belonging and freedoms while paying homage to the roots and passages of those closest to me.
