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Platanos y Momias
Self-published, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico, 2021
In Platanos y Momias I string together sixteen postcard-length stories. I follow elephant-shaped objects—an elephant hat from Mexico City, real elephants in a South African park, elephant-ear pastries and plants in Veracruz, Ganesh statues in India.Each elephant object triggers a ricochet: a vanished friend, my mother’s hospital room, a job that collapsed before a revolution, an anarchist printing press, soap-slick streets, blue moon-washed houses, a joke between a banana and a minaret. These fragments pile up like souvenirs in a carry-on testing what sticks and what slips when lives are packed, shipped, and unpacked again.
Artist Book, Creative Writing & Zines