It Sings a Song of Sorrow
Touch and interaction are an inherent outcome in jewelry. I use ‘desire of touch’ as the basis for creating the work in my series “When…” With each piece, I try and find a balance between material and concept. My works…
Performance
Digging in the Dark
Movement, gesture, purpose and progress define work. The motion of digging with hands creates a dialogue with the earth, where tools leverage the action of bodies enacted for ages. Shovels aid aspects of labor: a new hole dug better, a…
The Interpretation of Biological Inclination as Demonstrated Through the Illusion of the Cyclopean Finger Sausage
This is a mental image of a scene created by the brain through the process of combining two images received from both eyes. The finger sausage is the silliest yet easiest demonstration of this stereo-vision which brings into play perception…
Bush Baroque
Ximena’s current studio practice investigates landscape and topography as an expression of location and identity. Bush Baroque is the personal re-interpretation of Canberra’s landscape through a baroque lens, surrounded by centuries-old eucalyptus trees. In this body of work, Ximena returns…
El Beso
This Neck Piece – El Beso – is part of a one of a kind series I made for my solo exhibition “Love” inspired in the best description of a Kiss I’ve ever read in my life by the master…
The Poetic Lines of Architecture: Blue and White
This series of artworks takes the personally perceived most iconic architectural structures in Macau as the creative theme for the eight pieces in this series. These buildings are located on Macau’s three islands, and Portuguese-style bricks are traditionally utilized for…
One Day You’ll See
This body of work investigates the human use of sight to understand our interpersonal relationships with one another. Drawing from historical and contemporary use of the lens to amplify and distort our sight as a way to speak about our…
Buy Nothing Gigantic Necklace
In summer 2022, I had just moved to Hudson, Ohio and Buy Nothing was one of my first interactions with the Hudson community. The act of creating the necklace and the group donations and encouragement are all part of the…