Diana Sofia Estrada, though I just stumbled onto her, grew up in Texas and now ( I think ) lives and works here in Houston. This piece is part of a body of work that uses maps to address cultural identity and body image. The inversion of South America recalls Joaquín Torres-García's from '36.
I noticed that the image had been folded and un-folded like a map and like how she connects that idea to the processing, manipulation, and degradation that our own multi-faceted self-image goes through.
Here's a statement about her work I lifted off of DiverseWorks:
Artist Statement:
I use maps, photographs of skin tones, images of geographically specific diseases, and language to show how people create borders and divisions. I compare and contrast to understand how these themes affect one's body, location and experience. I explore these ideas through a process of degradation that occurs through the scanning of images, cutting up photos, and folding paper. This process helps me to reconstruct ideas I have about culture-defined identities and memory: destroying memories and an identity presented in the visual imagery present in the work.
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